Santa Cruz do Sul
Santa Cruz do Sul ( pronunciation ) is a city in central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The city has approximately 130,000 inhabitants and sits about 150 km (about 93 miles) from the capital city of the state, Porto Alegre.
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Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Resende, Rio de Janeiro
Resende (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁeˈzẽdʒi]) is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It has a population of 119,801 (2010) and an area of 1,144 km². Resendense refers to people or things that come from or inhabit Resende. It is…
Praça dos Três Poderes
Praça dos Três Poderes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɾasɐ dus ˈtɾes poˈdeɾis], Three Powers Plaza) is a plaza in Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
Parintins
Parintins is a municipality in the far east of the Amazonas state, Brazil. It is part of a microregion also named Parintins. The population for the entire municipality was 109,150 (2005) and its area is 5,952 km². The city is located on Tupinambaran…
Pampulha
Pampulha (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐ̃ˈpuʎɐ]) is a man-made lake located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro
The Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, (Portuguese full name: Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo da antiga Sé, literally Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of the Ancient See) is an old Carmelite church whi…
Nova Petrópolis
Nova Petrópolis is a municipality in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The main seat of the municipality is also called Nova Petrópolis. It is located in the Serra Gaúcha region, at 29º22'35" South, 51º06'52" West, about 100 km nort…
Nova Europa
Nova Europa (lit., New Europe) is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2010 is 9,301 and the area is 161.39 km2 (62.31 sq mi).
Marechal Rondon International Airport
Marechal Rondon International Airport (IATA: CGB, ICAO: SBCY) is the airport serving Cuiabá, Brazil, located in the adjoining municipality of Várzea Grande.
Jalapão
Jalapão is a state park in eastern Tocantins, Brazil, about 250 kilometres (160 mi) from the Tocantins capital, Palmas. It occupies 34,000 square kilometres (13,000 sq mi), making it the largest state park in Tocantins. The region is considered one …
Isabella Nardoni case
Isabella de Olivero Nardoni (18 April 2002 – 29 March 2008), a 5-year-old Brazilian girl, was murdered on the night of Saturday, 29 March 2008. It is alleged that Isabella was strangled and abused before her father, Alexandre Alves Nardoni threw her…
Ibirapuera Auditorium
The Ibirapuera Auditorium (Portuguese: Auditório Ibirapuera) is a building conceived by Oscar Niemeyer for the presentation of musical spectacles, situated in Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo.
Hercilio Luz Bridge
Located in Florianopolis, the capital city of Santa Catarina State in southern Brazil, the Hercilio Luz Bridge is the first bridge constructed to link the Island of Santa Catarina to the mainland.
Gávea
Gávea is an affluent residential neighborhood located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It borders the São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Lagoa and Jardim Botânico neighborhoods and is famous for its high con…
Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport
Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport (IATA: VIX, ICAO: SBVT), formerly called Goiabeiras Airport after the neighborhood where it is located, is the airport serving Vitória, Brazil.
Dourados
Dourados is a Brazilian municipality, situated in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 225 km (140 mi) Southwest of Campo Grande (the state's capital). It has a population of about 210,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly in arable agricultu…
Chapecó
Chapecó is a major city in the western area of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, located 630 km west of Florianópolis, the capital of the state.
Campo Grande International Airport
Campo Grande International Airport (IATA: CGR, ICAO: SBCG), sometimes also informally referred to as Antônio João Airport, after the neighborhood where it is located, is the airport serving Campo Grande, Brazil.
Camaçari
Camaçari is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is located at (12°41′51″S38°19′27″W). It is part of the Salvador Metropolitan Region (Região Metropolitana de Salvador), being the industrial city of the metropolis. Several factories and petrochemical plants…
Caldas Novas
Caldas Novas is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Goiás.
Boa Viagem, Recife
Boa Viagem is a neighborhood in the city of Recife, Pernambuco in the privileged southern zone of the town.
Belo Horizonte/Pampulha – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport
Belo Horizonte/Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH) is an airport serving Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located in the neighborhood of Pampulha.
Barra Velodrome
The Barra velodrome is one of three sports venues located on the site of the Nelson Piquet International Autodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (the other two are the Rio Olympic Arena and the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center).
ABC Region
The term ABC Region is an industrial region in Greater São Paulo, Brazil.
Valinhos
Valinhos (Portuguese pronunciation: [vaˈliɲus]) is a municipality (municipio) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the birthplace of Adoniran Barbosa. Valinhos is famous for its purple fig, the theme of its annual Fig Fest. It is geographically …
Tefé
Tefé (Teffé in early accounts) is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. It is located about 525 km by air or 595 km by river to the west of Manaus on the south bank of the Rio Solimões (the upper Amazon), on the lake formed by th…
Suzano
Suzano is a city in São Paulo, Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population in 2004 was 272,452 and the area is 206 km².
Superior Court of Justice (Brazil)
The Superior Court of Justice (Portuguese: Superior Tribunal de Justiça, [suˈpɾẽmu tɾibuˈnaw dʒi ʒuʃˈtʃisɐ], also known as STJ, IPA: [ˌɛsiteˈʒɔtɐ]) is the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional questions of federal law. The STJ als…
Rio Claro, São Paulo
Rio Claro is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The elevation is 613 m.
Purus River
The Purus River or Rio Purús is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is 63,166 km2 (24,389 sq mi), and the mean discharge is 8,400 m³/s.
Praia Grande
Praia Grande is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.
Pico das Agulhas Negras
Pico das Agulhas Negras is the fifth highest mountain in Brazil, standing at 2,791 metres (9,157 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest in the Brazilian Highlands.
Pato Branco
Pato Branco ("White Duck" in English) is a city in the southwest part of the Brazilian state Paraná. The municipality covers 537,8 km² (206.7 mi²) and has a population of 66,680 (2007 IBGE estimate). Pato Branco started off as a village in 1942 and …
Mossoró
Mossoró (Portuguese pronunciation: [mosoˈɾɔ]) is the second most populous city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, and also the largest municipality of that state. It is equidistant (four hours' drive) from Natal (approximately 277 km or 17…
Morumbi, São Paulo
Morumbi (Brazilian Portuguese: [moɾũˈbi]) is a district of the city of São Paulo belonging to the subprefecture of Butantã, in the southwestern part of the city.