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	South Region, Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The southern region of Brazil ("Sul" in portuguese) is characterized by its high standard of living, the highest in the country, as of 2004, the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul had an average of ~0.805 in the Human Development Index.
		The population of Southern Brazil's coast is mainly of Portuguese descent, tracing their roots back to the middle XVIII century, when waves of Portuguese colonists, from the Azores islands, settled in the region.
		The Japanese population of Paraná is one of the largest in Brazil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Region,_Brazil (517 words)

	Northeast Region, Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brazil's Northeast region can be characterized as arid for relatively long periods of time in the interior of the continent, with the coast and the southern areas having a more humid climate.
		The Nordeste is the poorest region of Brazil, with the worst HDI rates of the country, mainly in the rural areas, which suffer from long periods without rain.
		In contrast to the situation occurring in the other Brazilian regions where social problems are worse in bigger cities, social problems in the Northeast regions are worse in the rural and small communities of the interior, lessening in bigger cities near the coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nordeste (997 words)

	Brazil - Simple English Wikipedia
		Brazil has the world's largest forest area, the Amazon forest, which makes up 40% of the country's land.
		Brazil has other types of land and plants, including a type of savannah called cerrado, a somewhat dry plant region named caatinga, and even plant life found in warm areas, in Brazil's South Region.
		Brazil is known for samba dancing, carnival and soccer, but it also has many other interesting things, a deep, varied culture (influenced by people who have come from many countries), and, in many ways, a changing, modern economy.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazil (189 words)

	Brazil: The South
		Brazil's southern region lies to the south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
		The South is also famous for its beautiful beaches, different from the tropical beaches of the other regions.
		The man of the pampas is the legendary "gaucho", dressed in "bombachas" (baggy pants tied at the ankle), a poncho draped over his shoulders, broad-brimmed hat, bandanna tied at the neck and a large knife in his belt.
	www.travelvantage.com /braz_south.html (839 words)

	Brazil by region
		Whilst growing economic activity in the region has resulted in much environmental damage, particularly the indiscriminate use of mercury by gold prospectors and large scale deforestation, there is a growing awareness among many Brazilians that the Amazon is a unique resource in need of protection.
		São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, has some interesting markets (such as the Hippie market in the Praça da Republica) and a snake farm at Butantã, where much of the world's serum used to be produced.
		It is the commercial capital of Brazil, as São Paulo state is where most of the country's agricultural and industrial wealth is concentrated.
	www.lastfrontiers.com /regions.php?c=brazil (1676 words)

	Brazil
		Brazil is the largest country in South America in terms of both area and population.
		Brazil's GDP is the highest in Latin America and one of the highest in the world.
		Brazil's chief farming and grazing areas are in the south.
	www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/bypass/314/english/brazil.htm (7926 words)

	SOUTH AMERICA
		In the mountainous regions of the west, it is colder at the higher elevations with approximately a three degree drop in temperature for every thousand foot increase in elevation.
		Brazil, with a growing population of nearly 161 million, is the fifth largest country in the world.
		Brazil was given to the Portuguese by the Spanish during the 1700's at which time it was split among 11 Portuguese families.
	www.rlc.dcccd.edu /mathsci/anth/g104/REGIONS/05samer/SAweb.htm (3366 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brazil by far has more tropical forest than any other country in the world and thus holds a truly unique role in global environmental affairs and particularly in the world of international environmental politics.
		While Brazil is famous for its biological diversity and the Amazon region, it is also notorious for past (and present) problems of deforestation, over-extraction of resources, and local struggles between indigenous groups, cattle ranchers, developers, and rubber tappers.
		Your experiences in Brazil and in Washington, DC will uncover these struggles of the past and explore the new challenges, commitments, and bold initiatives that are taking place in Brazil at the local, national, and international levels.
	www.american.edu /washingtonsemester/2.programs/2.6IED.brazil.htm (1037 words)

	Designing for the 21st Century III
		Brazil has 10 neighbors: the Department of French Guiana and the countries of Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia bound Brazil on the north.
		Uruguay and Argentina are on the south, and on the west are Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru.
		Brazil's highest peak, Pico da Neblina, reaching 9,888 feet (3,014 meters), is in the north, close to the Venezuelan border.
	www.designfor21st.org /pg.cfm?nid=236&l=en (1415 words)

	Embassy of Brazil in London : South Region - Santa Catarina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After them came the Italians, who settled mainly in the south and west of the state, and last of all the Germans, who chose to go north and north-east and founded the cities of Blumenau in the Itajaí Valley, and Joinville.
		The lands in the region once belonged to François Ferdinand Phillipe, Prince of Joinville and son of Louis Phillipe, King of France by his marriage to the sister of King Pedro II, Francisca Carolina.
		South of the city of Florianópolis one finds the Sonho, Pinheira, Guarda do Embaú and Pedras Altas beaches, apart from some of the most popular beaches for surfing: Garopaba, Rosa, Imbituba and Farol de Santa Marta.
	www.brazil.org.uk /page.php?n=372 (1475 words)

	Embassy of Brazil in London : South Region - Paraná (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Today, reversing that initial course, the state is developing a recovery programme for rivers and areas that are suffering from erosion, acknowledged world-wide, and is mounting an intensive effort towards the conservation of its ecosystems.
		Paraná is situated in the centre of the most industrialized region of Latin America: contained within a 1,300 km band are Brazil's most important economic poles as well as the capitals of Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.
		The experience of living with the forces of nature and the scintillating and eternal spectacle of the waters combines with the exuberant tropical vegetation, which is home to various endangered species.
	www.brazil.org.uk /page.php?n=370 (1819 words)

	Welcome to Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brazil is the biggest country in South America.
		The region is 18 S-37 W. Their average weight is between 80 to 120 pounds.
		Rainforest grow in four layers the canopy is at the top, the sub-canopy is under that, the understory is under that, and the floor is at the bottom.
	www.riverdale.k12.or.us /~henryr11/brazil (380 words)

	Brazil - Vacation Rentals .com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		You can’t miss the jungle in the North region of Brazil; the Amazon rainforest happens to be the biggest biological reserve on the globe, so the flora and fauna sightings are wonderful, especially on a river cruise.
		Great beaches await the vacationer in the Northeast region of Brazil, from the dunes of sand to the large variety of water sports available, such as sea kayaking.
		South East Brazil features the masterpiece architecture of the sculptor Aleijadinho in the Church of St. Francis of Assisi.
	www.vacationrentals.com /vacation-rentals/Brazil.html (799 words)

	Brazil < South America < Americas < Region < : news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The reserve was established in 1961, a few years after many of the tribes in the region had had their first contact with white civilization after thousands of years of isolation.
		In Brazil, government inspectors from the Ministry of Labour have freed 849 workers being held in conditions of slavery on a coffee farm near Barreiras in the state of Bahia.
		And in the poor regions of north-east Brazil, where most of the workers come from, unemployment and poverty mean that there is always a large army of desperate people easily persuaded to try their luck hundreds of miles away.
	www.schema-root.org /region/americas/south_america/brazil (1956 words)

	Brazil Pork Industry Overview, August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Competition for land in the major producing areas of the center-west region, mostly from soybeans and sugarcane, have prompted a new movement of cattle towards the north region, mostly to areas located in the pre-Amazon, such as the states of Mato Grosso and Para.
		Currently, per capita pork consumption is concentrated in the South with per capita consumption at 18 kilograms and the Southeast at 15 kilograms, while the Center- West (11 kilograms) and Northeast (6 kilograms) regions consume less pork.
		The outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease in June 2004 in the Amazon region prompted interruptions of pork exports to Argentina and Russia.
	www.thepigsite.com /FeaturedArticle?Display=1177 (1608 words)

	Lands of Exile--The Americas
		Brazil was first discovered in 1499 by Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (who could not claim it due to the Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494).
		Though the English had a presence in Brazil, it was by far the Dutch who would be the biggest thorn in the side of Spanish/Portuguese Brazil.
		A region that is ostensibly owned by the recently merged Spanish/Portuguese Empire, but one which is highly coveted by the English and Dutch, who will take it by force, if possible.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/brazhist.html (683 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA5, Manaus Region, Brazil
		The Manaus region is in western Central Amazonia in Brazil's northern State of Amazonas, and includes the lower drainage area of the Rio Negro and its confluence with the Solimões River, which extends eastward as the Amazon River.
		In Lower Amazonia it is associated with robust grass meadows (Pires and Prance 1985) and in the Manaus region with the Solimões River.
		In the Lower Rio Negro region where the campinas are small and scattered, species richness is low in contrast to the extensive, older yet often isolated areas of the Upper Rio Negro region.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa5.htm (5237 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA20, Espinhaço Range Region, Brazil
		This lowland is a barrier to migration of the northern (Bahian) Espinhaço flora to the south and vice versa, and probably acted as such in the past when it could have been drier or covered by forest (Harley 1988).
		The striking differences between the Espinhaço vegetation and the surrounding lowlands are clearly determined by the differences in geological and topographic conditions, as well as the upland presence of clouds and dew, which are absent in the lowlands during the dry season.
		The "tepui" region of the Guayana Highlands (CPD Site SA2) shares many similarities with the campo rupestre; both are formed in part from Precambrian shields that occur north and south of the Amazon.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa20.htm (5718 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers.
		Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior.
		That Brazil absorbed these shocks without financial collapse is a tribute to the resiliency of the Brazilian economy and the economic program put in place by former President CARDOSO and strengthened by President LULA DA SILVA.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/br.html (1311 words)

	Brazil - Regions - South East
		The majority of the country's population is concentrated in this region.
		The area is rich in minerals, and its manufacturing, agricultural, and other industries are the most advanced in the country.
		Many large cities in this region are surrounded by areas of poor quality housing or favelas.
	www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk /countrystudies/southeast.html (262 words)

	wikien.info: Brasil,_Sul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Brazil southern region is characterized by its high standard of living, the highest in the country, as of 2004, the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul had an average of ~0.805 in the Human Development Index.
		Climate: Temperate in almost all the entire region, warm in the summer and cold in the winter (sometimes there is snow in the southern regions of the region).
		The region is highly urbanized (85%) and many cities are famous by its urban planning, like Curitiba, Londrina and Maringá.
	www.wikien.info /index.php?title=Brasil,_Sul (516 words)

	South American Business Information: Brazil: South region to transfer 1,000 MW to Southeast region.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brazil: South region to transfer 1,000 MW to Southeast region.
		The Brazilian South region will transfer other 1,000 MW to the Southeast region and will not stick to the governement" energy ration program.
		The maximum to be transfered from the South to the Southeast region is of 2,600 MW due to the capacity of...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:74505465&refid=ink_tptd_np (214 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA6, Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela
		To the region's south is the Western Amazonian Depression, beginning near where Colombia's Caquetá River joins the Japurá River of Brazil.
		Generally, this region is a broad plain between the somewhat higher western Colombian plateaux (and mesas) and the Guayana Highlands farther east in Venezuela and Brazil.
		Henderson, Churchill and Luteyn (1991) probably are correct in proposing the Andes as the most diverse region of South America and probably of the world - the very many habitats and niches induced by the complex mosaic of soils, climate, geology, geomorphology and topography guarantee this.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa6.htm (2895 words)

	Brazil Livestock and Products Annual - September 2005
		Although the Brazilian economy is projected to grow by 3.5 percent in 2006 with inflation under control, domestic demand for animal protein is estimated to increase at moderate rates due to the lack of consumer confidence resulting from the current political uncertainties and the high level of consumer debt from purchases of durable goods.
		Beef production is projected to increase by five percent in 2006, mostly driven by strong demand from the export market, as Brazil continues to benefit from the problems derived from animal disease outbreaks in some regions of the world.
		Pork utilization in Brazil is estimated at 70 percent industrial/processing, and 30 percent fresh consumption.
	www.thepigsite.com /FeaturedArticle?Display=1434 (1344 words)

	Increase of Transgenics in the South [of Brazil]
		The difference is that the glifosfate - used in the transgenic crops - costs 50% less than the mix of herbicides that would have to be used in the conventional plantation'.
		There is no certainty on when a definite decision on the subject will be reached, but the truth is that the producers are not the only ones who are planting and looking forward to an approval.
		The pirating of seed in Brazil brought the anger of the North-American producers who pressured the multinational Monsanto to demand the payment of royalties from the seeds which are illegally multiplied.
	www.soygrowers.com /library/timelynews/gazeta.htm (712 words)

	World Wildlife Fund
		Soy is one of the fastest growing industries in South America.
		Soy exports from these countries are boosted by a high demand in the European Union and China, where the crop is used to feed pigs, chickens, and cattle.
		Soy demand is expected to increase by 60 per cent in the next 20 years, which could lead to the loss of an additional 16 million hectares of savannahs, and 6 million hectares of tropical forests in the region according to a recent WWF's study.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2005/0307-08.htm (517 words)

	A virtual travel to Brazil - Brasil - South America - Brazil visitors guide
		A virtual destination guide to Brazil, this page is about many aspects of "Brasil", the fifth largest country in the world, both in terms of territory and population.
		By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil has overcome more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of the interior.
		Terrain: Dense forests in northern regions including Amazon Basin; semiarid along northeast coast; mountains, hills, and rolling plains in the southwest, including Mato Grosso; and coastal lowland.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/brazil.htm (912 words)

	Parana - Dilos Holiday World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Parana located on the South Region of Brazil, has five natural zones: the Coastline, the Serra do Mar (Sea Forest), The First, The Second and the Third Plateaus, all with pleasant surprises.
		On the coastline, the Paranagua bay is one of the most important on the South of Brazil, detaching the Paranagua and Antonina ports.
		It currently produces a large part of Brazil's electricity and the major power stations are Itaipu, on the Parana River, and Foz do Areia, Salto Santiago, Governador Ney Braga, Salto Osorio and Salto Caxias on the Iguacu River.
	www.dilos.com /location/14383 (366 words)

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