Holidays in Brazil are as colorful, vibrant and multifaceted as the whole of this famous Latin American country. The largest country in Latin America is world-famous elite beaches (almost everyone knows Copacabana Beach) and comfortable hotels (a three-star hotel in…
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Argentina is located in the southeast of South America and occupies an impressive territory. Due to its length, this country boasts a wide variety of beautiful landscapes, a large number of representatives of the animal and plant worlds and, of…
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ECONOMY Business etiquette Knowledge of Spanish is useful, but most business people also speak English. Appointments are customary and punctuality is expected. Business cards should have a Spanish translation on the back. Business is idle during the carnival season. Business…
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The caatinga is a type of biome in regions with hot and dry climate, characteristic of the Northeast region of Brazil. It houses a set of plant species of arboreal and shrub size that cover the northeastern semiarid. The soils…
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Indigenous lands and their demarcations Brazil has approximately 104,508,334 hectares (1 million and 45 thousand km²) of indigenous lands. This represents 12.24% of the extension of the Brazilian territory (almost twice the Spanish territory, which is 504,800 km²). According to…
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According to the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) , the current indigenous population in Brazil is approximately 818,000 individuals, representing 0.4% of the Brazilian population. Living in villages, there are 503,000 indigenous people. However, there are estimates that there are 315,000…
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The main characteristic of Brazilian urbanization is the continuous and accelerated increase in the urban population compared to the decrease in the rural population. Urbanization in colonial Brazil Century XVI Urbanization in the country began in 1532 with the foundation…
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Currently, according to the IBGE, Brazil is divided into five regions , composed of states that have similarities in their physical, human, economic and cultural aspects. As you can see from the map below, the limits of each region coincide…
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Although Brazil does not appear, on the international stage, as a country in the developed world, it can be considered so when the evaluated aspect is agricultural production. In increasingly broad areas of the territory, Brazilian agriculture reaches extremely high…
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It is worth starting from the beginning: “If underdeveloped countries are unable to pay their debts, let them sell their wealth, their territories and their factories.” (Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of England, London, 1983.); “Contrary to what Brazilians think, the…
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Does the Amazon belong to everyone? The text below will talk about the internationalization of the Amazon , which is a fact that has been discussed since the mid-1980s, when some politicians from first world countries, discussing the payment of…
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Passport and Visa Nordic citizens do not need a visa to travel to St Lucia if you stay shorter than 30 days. Check that your passport is valid until the day after the return journey. The passport must not be…
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From the “Made in USA” tradition to the agroecological paradigm 1. INTRODUCTION Rural extension in Brazil was introduced in 1948, with the economic support of public and private organizations in the United States, as part of Third World development aid…
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The second capital of Brazil and the current seat of the state government, the city of Rio de Janeiro is home to the largest Brazilian postcard: Christ the Redeemer, one of the seven wonders of the modern world, and also…
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