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23 unusual facts about Brasília


2009 Formula 3 Sudamericana season

It began on 6 June 2009, at Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasília and ended on 22 November at Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba.

Associação Atlética Luziânia

Despite the club being from Goiás, the club competes in the Campeonato Brasiliense due to its proximity to Brasília city.

Biometric passport

However just in December 2010 it began to issue passports with microchips, first in the capital Brasília and Goiás state.

Brasília Futebol Clube

Brasília Futebol Clube, also known as Brasília, are a Brazilian football team from Brasília, in Distrito Federal.

Brasiliense Futebol Clube

The Brasiliense Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team, based in Taguatinga, Brasília, in Distrito Federal.

Campeonato Fluminense

In 1960, with the inauguration of Brasília as the new capital of Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro became the new Guanabara state.

Capital Clube de Futebol

Capital Clube de Futebol, commonly known as Capital/Cristalina, is a Brazilian football club based in Brasília, Distrito Federal.

Before moving to Cristalina, Capital Clube de Futebol played their home games at Estádio Nacional de Brasília, commonly known as Estádio Mané Garrincha.

Capital Inicial

All of them are based in Brasília, a city that, with its particular situation as Brazil's capital, revolves around politicians who abandon it on the weekends.

Centro de Ensino Unificado de Brasília Esporte Clube

Centro de Ensino Unificado de Brasília Esporte Clube, commonly known as CEUB, were a Brazilian football club from Brasília.

Centro de Futebol Zico de Brasília Sociedade Esportiva

Centro de Futebol Zico de Brasília Sociedade Esportiva, also known as CFZ de Brasília, are a Brazilian football team from Brasília, Distrito Federal.

Cultura Inglesa

The Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas (Culturas Inglesas Brazilian Association), widely known simply as Cultura Inglesa (English Culture) is an English-teaching franchise founded in 1934 and with branches present in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia and their surroundings.

Eduardo e Mônica

It was largely inspired by Bob Dylan, telling the story of youngsters in Brasília which fall in love, despite having nothing in common.

Grêmio Esportivo Tiradentes

Grêmio Esportivo Tiradentes, commonly known as Tiradentes, was a Brazilian football club based in Brasília, Distrito Federal.

I as in Icarus

The capital city is made only of modern buildings, like Brasília.

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

Located in Brasília, IPC-IG facilitates South-South learning with the aim of expanding developing countries’ knowledge and capacities to design, implement and evaluate effective policies towards the attainment of high inclusive growth.

Legião Futebol Clube

Legião Futebol Clube, commonly known as Legião, is a Brazilian football club based in Brasília, Distrito Federal.

NoB

In July 2007, he sang with Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endoh, Yoko Ishida, Kouji Wada and MoJo at Anime Friends, the biggest anime convention in Latin America, in Brazil; it was his first time in the county and he has gone back there to perform several times not only at Anime Friends, but also in other events in other cities, such as Fortaleza and Brasília.

Os Aspones

The program, which portrayed a group of white-collar workers at a governmental department lost in Brazilian bureaucracy in Brasília which actually has no function at all, starred Selton Mello, Andréa Beltrão, Pedro Paulo Rangel, Marisa Orth, Drica Moraes and Mário Schoemberger.

Rádio Nacional

In 1958, two years before the inauguration of new capital Brasília, Rádio Nacional Brasília was founded and in 1976 the FM version, Nacional FM was assembled in the same city.

Sociedade Esportiva Unaí Itapuã

Despite the fact that the club is from Minas Gerais, the club competes in the Campeonato Brasiliense due to its proximity to Brasília city.

Túlio Lustosa Seixas Pinheiro

Túlio Lustosa Seixas Pinheiro or simply Túlio (born April 25, 1976 in Brasília), is a Brazilian defensive midfielder.

Vivi Fernandez

Born in Brasília, the daughter of a retired soldier, Fernandes finished high school and then started a course for dental technician that later ended up to become a model.


2009 Brazilian girl abortion case

On 9 March 2009, Health Minister Temporão interrupted the opening ceremony of a national medical convention on women's health in Brasília in order to compliment Dr Olímpio Moraes, one of the doctors who carried out the abortion and who was in attendance.

2013 Fórmula Truck season

It begin on March 10 at Tarumã and ended on December 8 at Brasília.

Abadiânia

Highway connections with Brasília, Anápolis and Goiânia are made by BR-060 (also called in the Brasília-Anápolis stretch as Belém-Brasília Highway).

Located between Brasília and Goiânia on the BR-060 highway, it has always been a stopping-off point for travellers between the two cities.

Brasilia Hip Hop

He was born in Sobradinho, satellite city around Brasília, and moved to Guará, another satellite city around Brasília, in 1973, where he resided until 1991.

C.D. Brasilia

Club Deportivo Brasilia, usually known simply as Brasilia are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Suchitoto, El Salvador.

Capital districts and territories

The Brazilian federal government was transferred to the current Distrito Federal, split off from the state of Goiás on April 21, 1960, when the planned city of Brasília was inaugurated.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Corumbá River

Its banks suffer the consequences of removal of sand and gravel in several points (in Luziânia sand was removed to build Brasília).

The Corumbá flows south from its source near Corumbá de Goiás, where there are spectacular waterfalls, is crossed by a major ridge on the Brasília-Goiânia highway east of Alexânia, passing near Pires do Rio and Caldas Novas, south of which it enters the Itumbiara Reservoir, the lake damming up the Paranaíba River, one of the main tributaries of the Paraná.

Denise Rocha

Denise Rocha (born Denise Leitão Rocha on December 5, 1983, Brasília, Distrito Federal) is a Brazilian model, parliamentary adviser & lawyer best known for coming second in the A Fazenda 6, a reality show broadcast by Rede Record in 2013.

Dimas Lara Barbosa

Lara Barbosa received his episcopal consecration on the following August 2 from Eusébio Oscar Scheid, archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, with the bishop of São José dos Campos, José Nelson Westrupp, and the auxiliary bishop of Brasília, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, serving as co-consecrators.

Footvolley

Footvolley started in Rio de Janeiro; however cities like Recife, Salvador, Brasília, Goiânia, Santos and Florianópolis have players who have been playing footvolley since the 1970s.

History of Brasília

President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a place close to the center of the country.

Hospital Daher

It is one of the most well-known health units in Brasília due to the quality of care, medical equipment and expertise in Plastic surgery.

Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

With three R&D centers in Brazil (located in Brasilia, Manaus, and Recife) and a satellite office in São Paulo, INdT counts on a group of approximately 350 professionals and works to become a world-wide recognized competence center.

Jacqueline Meirelles

First daughter of an attorney born in Ceará state and a manager from Minas Gerais, Jacqueline moved to Brasília at seven months old.

Kaempfer's Woodpecker

Some sites are threatened by the construction of a new section of the Belém-Brasília Highway, and habitat loss is likely to be the main threat.

Maria Firmina dos Reis

::* Reprint: Rio de Janeiro: Presença; Brasília: INL, 1988; with an introduction by Charles Martin, updated and annotated by Luiza Lobo, Coleção Resgate.

Mauritia flexuosa

The government of the Federal District - the Brazilian state where the country's capital, Brasília, is located - is called Palácio do Buriti ("Buriti Palace").

Pablo Atchugarry

In the late 1970s, after having several exhibitions in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Porto Alegre and Brasília, he made several trips to Spain, France and Italy, where in 1978 he had his first personal exhibition in the city of Lecco (side of Como).

Punk in Brazil

While in São Paulo, bands were closer to raw punk and hardcore, in the nation's capital, Brasília, punk rock bands were closer to new wave: those were bands like Aborto Elétrico, Legião Urbana, Capital Inicial and Plebe Rude.

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais operated services to the following scheduled domestic destinations (at January 2005): Caxias do Sul, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Londrina, Maringá, Passo Fundo, São Paulo and Vitória.

That Man from Rio

This fast-moving spoof of James Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer's nascent Brasília, and Paris.

The Face Is Familiar

Its theme song was a slightly-modified version of Brasilia, performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

The ParkShopping

It was opened on November 8, 1983 and is located between the Plano Piloto (Pilot Plan) and Guará, near the Brasília International Airport.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki

The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto.

TV Brasil Internacional

TV Brasil Internacional is an international television station based in the city of Brasília in Brazil and also via Maputo in Mozambique.

TV Brasília

In terms of journalism, TV Brasília showed several journalists, among them are Ana Paula Padrão, Liliane Cardoso, among others.