The birth of cinema On July 8, 1896, at number 57 of rua do Ouvidor in Rio de Janeiro, the first Brazilian film screening took place. Also in rua do Ouvidor, the first cinema hall was opened on 31 July 1897. In the same year, by an itinerant projectionist, the Italian Vittorio di Maio, the […]

Coastal currents influence the conditions of the coast, in direct relation to the great equatorial ocean current, which is of fundamental importance for navigation. As is known, the great equatorial current splits into two branches near the Brazilian coast. The main one heads north, towards the coast of Guiana, running at no great distance from […]

According to sourcemakeup.com, the coast is generally low and lagoon throughout the vast area where the Amazon River estuary and the Tocantins-Pará estuary join, divided by the island of Marajó as wide as Switzerland, facing N. by the islands of Caviana and Mexiana and in which the rocky base emerges, as well as in the […]

In the Serra di Paranaquara, not far from the confluence of the Parú (left bank, near Almeirim), tertiary and Quaternary sandstones and clays have been raised en masse up to 300 meters, forcing the river to deepen its bed under the high terraces of the left bank. Going up the Trombetas, which reaches the great […]

The Goyan system is connected to the maritime system by means of the relief improperly called Serra das Vertentes, a low threshold or rather fraction of the plateau limited and engraved to the north by the spring valleys of San Francisco and to the south by the Rio Grande valley (Paranȧ), which extends between the […]

According to plus-size-tips.com, a salient feature of the Brazilian relief is the contrast between the area of ​​high lands, very ancient, which is commonly given the name of Brazilian Plateau, and the region of low lands, mostly of more recent origin, indicated by the name of Amazonian lowland. But even a cursory examination of the […]

Brazil has the highest degree of industrialization of all Latin American countries and is (2017) the eighth largest economy in the world. In connection with the diverse and abundant mineral resources, Brazil can be described as a typical emerging country. The economic situation in the 1980s was characterized by increasing unemployment, rapidly increasing inflation rates, […]

Independent from Portugal since 1822, Brazil has been a presidential federal republic since 1889, made up of 26 states, each governed by an elected governor and assembly, and by a Distrito Federal (Brasília), created in 1960; the new Constitution of 1988, replacing the one imposed by the military regime in 1969, maintains the presidential system, […]

Territorially, Brazil occupies just under half of the entire subcontinent; its coasts, which have a development of 7491 km, represent most of the South American Atlantic coastal contour; the interior has artificial boundaries which broadly correspond to the limits of Portuguese penetration. The internal borders, which measure 15,719 km, were then definitively fixed after the […]

Salvador, formerly São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos [ sã  ba ia ðe Todus us Santus; Portuguese “(City of) the Holy Redeemer on All Saints Bay” ], abbreviated name Bahia, capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil, on the east bank of the entrance to All Saints Bay, fourth largest city in […]