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Belem
Belo Horizonte
Brasilia
Campo Grande
Cuiaba
Curitiba
Florianopolis
Fortaleza
Goiania
Manaus
Natal
Porto Alegre
Recife
Rio Branco
Rio De Janeiro
Salvador
Sao Paulo
Belém
The capital of the state of Pará, Belém is the main doorway to the eastern side
of the Amazon rainforest.
Belo Horizonte
Since the 18th century, during the days of the Inconfidência Mineira - an
independence conspiracy against the domination of the Portuguese crown - ...
Brasília
The construction of this ultra-modern city, situated in the centre of Brazil,
began in 1956.
Campo Grande
The group of farmers from the state of Minas Gerais that founded a small
village in the interior of the country in the late 19th century named it ...
Cuiabá
The capital of the state of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá is located in the exact
geographic centre of South America, an equidistant 2,000 km from the Atlantic
...
Curitiba
The city of Curitiba is one of the finest examples of a bulky economic and
industrial development carried out with responsibility and organisation. ...
Florianópolis
Part of Florianópolis is carved in the Southern coast of Brazil, while most of
its 433-square kilometre area is a majestic island right next to the ...
Fortaleza
Although it was officially founded as a village in 1726, and would only become
the capital of Ceará in 1799, Fortaleza (Portuguese for ‘fortress')...
Goiânia
Unlike most metropolitan areas in Brazil, Goiânia was established quite
recently, when its then-governor decided to move the capital of the state of ...
Manaus
The very location of the city of Manaus is one of its most remarkable
attractions: the confluence of the rivers Negro (Black) and Solimões (how the
...
Natal
On 25 December 1597, back when Brazil was a colony of the Portuguese crown, a
group of Portuguese officials reached the Potengi River with the duty ...
Porto Alegre
>From the subtropical climate to the cultural habits, Porto Alegre is fairly
>different from the other state capitals in Brazil.
Recife
Recife is the capital of the state of Pernambuco, in the north-east of Brazil,
and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area - ...
Rio Branco
It was not until 1920 that the state of Acre was officially unified and Rio
Branco was declared its capital. Formerly a Bolivian territory in the ...
Rio de Janeiro
On 1 January 1502, the Portuguese explorer Gaspar de Lemos brought his ship
into a bay on the Brazilian coast, which is now called Guanabara Bay.
Salvador
When the Portuguese crown first decided to carry out the endeavour of
colonising Brazil, the first urban area to be settled in was Salvador, which ...
São Paulo
The financial and business hub of Brazil, not only is São Paulo the biggest
city in the country, it also ranks among the most populous in the world, ...
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