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Showing posts with label BRAZIL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BRAZIL. Show all posts
March 18, 2020

3461 BRAZIL (Pernambuco) - Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves (UNESCO WHS)

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3461 Fernando de Noronha island. Of indescribable beauty, the Fernando de Noronha Marine National Park , located at a distance of abo...
October 7, 2017

3159 BRAZIL - Ants from Brazil

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Insects are, by far, the largest group of animals on the Earth (well over 1,000,000 species), representing 95% of the arthropods and 65...
April 6, 2016

0598, 2438, 2439 BRAZIL (São Paulo) - Central Zone of São Paulo

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2439 Central Zone of São Paulo Posted on 13.04.2013, 06.04.2016 On January 25, 1554 Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta toge...
January 13, 2016

2211 BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) - The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

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Considered the biggest festival which occurs before Lent , with two million people per day on the streets, the Carnival in Rio de Janei...
January 9, 2016

2198 BRAZIL (Paraná) - The railway Curitiba-Paranaguá

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  The railroad which link Curitiba , the capital of Paraná , and Paranaguá , across Serra do Mar (Brazil's coastal mountains range...
July 3, 2015

1714 BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) - Santa Teresa Tram

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Santa Teresa is the name of a neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro , located on top of the Santa Teresa hill, by the centre of R...
July 18, 2014

0398, 0509, 0862, 1148, 1149 BRAZIL (Paraná) - Iguazú Falls (UNESCO WHS)

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Posted on 28.11.2012, 18.02.2013, 15.11.2013, and 18.07.2014 "It is said that many years ago, there was a big and monstrous serpe...
March 14, 2014

1032 BRAZIL - The flag of the country

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The Portuguese territories in the Americas, corresponding roughly to what is now Brazil , never had their own flag, since the Portugues...
January 9, 2014

0956 BRAZIL (Mato Grosso) - The female ritual of Yamurikumã

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When the Portuguese arrived in South America in the 16th century, Brazil was inhabited by an estimated 2.4 million Amerindians , of ...
December 16, 2013

0406, 0407 & 0906 BRAZIL (Federal District) - Brasilia (UNESCO WHS)

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Posted on 08.12.2012, and completed on 16.12.2013 I received the first postcard from this post on December 5 (even if the postmark is f...
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October 1, 2013

0821 BRAZIL (Paraná) - Curitiba, the Model City

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Capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná , Curitiba is the largest city in the prosperous Southern region , and also a cultural, poli...
July 22, 2013

0497 & 0758 BRAZIL (Minas Gerais) - Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas (UNESCO WHS)

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Posted on 06.02.2013 and completed on 22.07.2013 Some people, when get from life more than they deserved, think should thank to s...
April 19, 2013

0608 BRAZIL (Santa Catarina) - A Tyrolean settlement in the south of Brazil

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No, isn't a mistake! The overwhelming majority of the more than 5,000 inhabitants of Treze Tílias (Dreizehnlinden in German), a mun...
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March 8, 2013

0546 BRAZIL (Bahia) - "Acarajé as Sold by Baianas", a Brazilian treasure

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As I said in a previous post , because today, March 8, is the International Women's Day , I will post four postcards depicting wom...
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February 18, 2013

510-513 BRAZIL - The Afro-Brazilian religions

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Of the more than 193 million inhabitants of Brazil, about half describe themselves as Black (6.84%) or Brown (43.80%), i.e. have mixed...
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