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Distrito Federal Brazil


The Federal District is one of 27 units of Brazil, where is the federal capital Brasilia, whose boundaries are the very ends where the Federal District. The capital was founded on April 21, 1960. It was built in three years and ten months, through a project of President Juscelino Kubitschek of change of the national capital of Rio de Janeiro to the center of the country. Until the creation of Brasília, the federal capital was located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, preceded by Salvador.

During the Empire, the equivalent of the Federal District was the neutral city, where stood the court in Rio de Janeiro. After the Proclamation of the Republic Rio de Janeiro became the federal capital, which only at the beginning of the 1960s was transferred to the center of Brazil, the eastern state of Goias time of his transfer, the territory which was located capital was provisionally the state of Guanabara (1960-1975). The Federal District initially maintained its political and administrative structure, remaining until today with the prestige of the ancient institutions and a capital of less than half a century.

With the Republican realignment of the Brazilian territory provinces became states, and each one became a federal unit. Almost all states are encountered in the provinces of the same names, except the Federal District and other states created by the territorial division where, for example split the state of Goias in two, the northern territory became the state of Tocantins and Goiás south remained

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Santa Catarina Brazil

Santa Catarina is one of 27 units of Brazil, located in the center of the South Region. It is the twentieth largest state in the nation, the eleventh most populous, and is the ninth most populous with 293 municipalities.

Catholicism is the predominant religion. The official language, as well as in other federal units, is the Portuguese language.

The territorial dimensions covering an area of 95,346 km ², is slightly larger than Hungary, limited to the states of Paraná (north) and Rio Grande do Sul (south), Atlantic Ocean (east) and Argentina (west). The ocean shore is about 450 km, or roughly half the continental coast of Portugal (943 km). Its capital and seat of government is the city of Florianopolis, located on the island of Santa Catarina. Entirely south of the Tropic of Capricorn, located in the southern temperate zone of the planet, the state has a subtropical climate. These conditions vary with the topography, and in the western mountain and plateau is a relatively common occurrence of frost and snow, while the coast the climate is warmer and can reach high temperatures during the summer season.

Historically, colonization was largely carried out by European immigrants: the Azorean Portuguese colonized the coast in the eighteenth century, the Germans colonized the Itajaí Valley, part of the south and north of Santa Catarina in the mid-nineteenth century and Italians colonized the South state at the end of that century. The west of Santa Catarina was colonized by gauchos of Italian and German in the first half of the twentieth century. The indices of social status are among the best in the country. Santa Catarina is the seventh richest state in the Federation, with a diversified economy and industrialized. Polo important exporter and consumer, the state is responsible for the expansion of the national economic accounting for 4% of gross domestic product

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About Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Rio de Janeiro is one of 27 units of Brazil. Situated in the eastern portion of the Southeast, having as limits the states of Minas Gerais (north and northwest), Espírito Santo (northeast) and São Paulo (southwest), as well as the Atlantic Ocean (east and south). It occupies an area of 43,696.054 km ², is slightly larger than Denmark. Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro. The natural state of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro are called (from Latin flumen, literally “river”).

The most populous cities are Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo, Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu, Belford Roxo, Niteroi, Sao Joao de Meriti, Campos Goytacazes, Petrópolis, Niagara Falls, Volta Redonda, Itaboraí, Macaé, Mosque, and Cabo Frio Nova Friburgo.

Many cities stand out due to a strong tourism: Angra dos Reis Armação dos Búzios, Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio, São Pedro da Aldeia, Nova Friburgo Penedo (District Itatiaia), Paraty, Petrópolis, Oyster Bay, Saquarema , Teresopolis, among others.

The state consists of two morphologically different regions: the lowlands and highlands, which run as parallel tracks, from the coast inland. Paraiba do Sul, Macaé, Guandu, Pirai, and Muriaé Carangola are the main rivers. The climate is tropical.

It is represented on the flag of the Brazilian Federation for the Beta star of the Southern Cross

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About Rio Grande do Sul Brazil

About: Rio Grande do Sul is one of 27 units of Brazil. Located in the Southern Region, has limits as the state of Santa Catarina to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, south to Uruguay and Argentina to the west, its capital is the city of Porto Alegre.

It is the southernmost state in the country, has the fourth highest GDP [3] – exceeded only by São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais – the fifth most populous [4] and the fifth human development index (HDI) higher [2].

The state has a remarkable role in Brazil’s history, having been the scene of the Ragamuffin War, the longest civil war in the country. Its population is largely made up of descendants of Indians, Portuguese, Azorean, Spaniards, Africans, Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Poles, among other immigrants [5].

In certain regions of the state, as the Serra Gaucha region and the rural southern half, you can still hear dialects of Italian (talian) and German (Hunsrückisch, Plattdeutsch) [5].

This Brazilian state originally had its economy based on cattle ranching that settled in southern Brazil during the seventeenth century with the Jesuit missions in America, and later expanded to commercial and industrial sectors, especially in the northern half of the state.

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Sao Paulo Brazil

The largest city in Brazil, Sao Paulo is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the south of the Southeast and is limited to the states of Minas Gerais (N and NE), Rio de Janeiro (L), Paraná (SO) and Mato Grosso do Sul (O), and the Atlantic Ocean (SE). It is divided into 645 municipalities and covers an area of 248 square 209.426 km, being slightly larger than the UK. Its capital is the city of Sao Paulo and its current governor is Alberto Goldman.

Nicknamed the “locomotive of Brazil,” [4] the state alone is responsible for 33.9% of Brazilian GDP, [5] being the richest state in the country. In addition to increased GDP, São Paulo also has the third highest Human Development Index, the second highest GDP per capita, the second lowest infant mortality rate and the fourth lowest rate of illiteracy among the units of Brazil.

With over forty million inhabitants, Sao Paulo is the most populous state in Brazil and the third most populous political unit of South America, only surpassed by that country and Colombia, ahead of all other South American countries. Its population is more diverse descends mainly from Brazil and Portuguese who discovered Brazil and installed the first villages in Brazil in exactly the state of Sao Paulo and Italian immigrants, Native Americans, Africans and other large migratory flows, as Arabs, Germans, Spanish and Japanese. Its capital is the city of São Paulo, whose metropolitan population is now 19 million inhabitants, according to last census in 2007.

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