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unusual facts about Brazilian state



2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

On June 27, 69 more cases were confirmed: 34 of them in São Paulo, 8 in Rio de Janeiro, 7 in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 in Paraná, 4 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Distrito Federal, 2 in Santa Catarina, 2 in Espírito Santo, 1 in Pará, 1 in Maranhão and the first in Amazonas.

Astrocaryum aculeatum

Astrocaryum aculeatum is found in and around the Amazon Basin, from Trinidad and Tobago in the north, through Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, the Brazilian states of Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and south through the Bolivian departments of Beni, Pando, Santa Cruz.

Bora–Witoto languages

Bora–Witóto (also Bora–Huitoto, Bora–Uitoto, or, ambiguously, Witotoan) is a proposal to unite the Bora and Witotoan language families of northeastern Peru (Loreto Region), southwestern Colombia (Amazonas Department), and western Brazil (Amazonas State).

Brown-chested Barbet

The Brown-chested Barbet's range in the central Amazon Basin, eastern Amazonas–western Pará states, North Region, Brazil, lies between two river systems in the east and west, with the Amazon River on the north.

Campina Jay

The Campina Jay is endemic to the Brazilian Amazon where it is known almost entirely from within the Madeira-Purus interfluve in the state of Amazonas.

Centro de Desenvolvimento Comunitário Manicoré

Centro de Desenvolvimento Comunitário Manicoré, commonly known as Manicoré, is a Brazilian football club based in Manicoré, Amazonas state.

Cobalt-winged Parakeet

The range of the Cobalt-winged Parakeet is in the extreme western Amazon Basin in Brazil's states of Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, part of the North Region; also from north to south, southernmost Venezuela, eastern Colombia-Ecuador-Peru, and northern and central Bolivia, and in Bolivia within the tributary rivers to the Madeira River flowing northeast to the Amazon River.

Dinoponera gigantea

Dinoponera gigantea has been found on the coast of Guyana, in the Brazilian states of Amazonas, Pará including Marajo Island, Mato Grosso and Maranhão as well as the Loreto Province in Peru.

Eigenmannia vicentespelaea

The only known troglobitic (exclusively cave-dwelling) member of the order Gymnotiformes, E. vicentespelaea is found in the São Vicente I and São Vicente II caves near São Domingos, in the central Brazilian state of Goiás.

Esporte Clube Iranduba da Amazônia

Esporte Clube Iranduba da Amazônia, commonly known as Iranduba, is a Brazilian men's and women's football club based in Iranduba, Amazonas state.

Esporte Clube Tarumã

Esporte Clube Tarumã, commonly known as Tarumã, is a football (soccer) club from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

Grêmio Atlético Coariense

Grêmio Atlético Coariense, commonly known as Grêmio Coariense, is a Brazilian football club based in Coari, Amazonas state.

Holanda Esporte Clube

Holanda Esporte Clube, commonly known as Holanda, is a Brazilian football club based in Rio Preto da Eva, Amazonas.

Ireng River

The Ireng River's waters are dark, bearing a striking resemblance to that of Rio Negro near Manaus, in Brazilian state of Amazonas.

José de Anchieta Júnior

He has served as the Governor of the northern Brazilian state of Roraima since the death of his predecessor, the late Governor Ottomar Pinto, in December 2007.

Lepthoplosternum stellatum

This species is so far known from the type locality only, the Igarapé Repartimento, a tributary of the mouthbay lake, Tefé Lake, some 6 km south of the town of Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.

Long-tailed Potoo

The range in Bolivia is bifurcated; in the north, the Long-tailed Potoo is found on the headwater rivers to Brazil's Amazonas state's Madeira River; in northeastern Bolivia, the bifurcated range extends only to the mountain headwaters of another tributary of the Madeira, the Brazilian-Bolivia Guaporé River.

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").

Operário Esporte Clube

Operário Esporte Clube, commonly known as Operário, is a Brazilian football club based in Manacapuru, Amazonas state.

Parides hahneli

It is endemic to Brazil in the states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Amazonas, and Pará, where it was placed on the list of endangered species in 2008.The butterfly was named to honour it's collector Paul Hahnel.

Princesa do Solimões Esporte Clube

Princesa do Solimões Esporte Clube, commonly known as Princesa do Solimões, is a Brazilian football club based in Manacapuru, Amazonas state.

Tembeassu marauna

marauna, two male and one female, were collected from the upper Paraná River at the border between the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo in 1965, during the construction of the coffer dam for the Ilha Solteira reservoir.

Total Linhas Aéreas

Presently Total operates three ATR42-500 for regular charter flights, particularly for Petrobras in Amazonas and six Boeing 727-200F for cargo and nightmail flights as per contract with Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation and the Central Bank of Brazil, among others.

White-browed Hawk

In Bolivia, on the Brazil-Bolivia border river the Guapore, the range bifurcates and is found only at the headwaters of the Guapore, and in the northern Bolivia-Peru region where the Guapore joins the headwater rivers of Brazil's Amazonas state's Madeira River.

White-winged Potoo

The main range of the White-winged Potoo is the central Amazon Basin at the confluence of four rivers, from the Rio Negro on the north, to the Madeira River on the south, in eastern regions of Brazil's Amazonas state.


see also

Belsnickel

The tradition also exists in parts of Newfoundland, the prairie provinces of Canada and some communities in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

Caesalpinia echinata

The tree is also known by other names, as ibirapitanga, Tupi for "red wood"; or pau de pernambuco, named after the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

Capitolio

Capitólio, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Cinnamon Attila

Its range stays contiguous along the Caribbean coast through the Guianas and only ends south and southeast of the Amazon River outlet with Marajo Island, and the outlet of the downstream Tocantins River, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão on the Atlantic coast.

Colombo, Paraná

Colombo is a city of about 217,000 inhabitants in the Southern Brazilian state of Paraná; is the third largest city in Greater Curitiba.

Dark-winged Trumpeter

The eastern range of Dark-winged Trumpeter extends into the lower adjacent Tocantins River drainage in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Jornal Nacional

Jornal Nacional has preferred to broadcast stories produced on the Southeast, in spite of Globo having affiliates in every Brazilian state.

Jovem FM 98.7 MHz

Jovem FM 98.7, founded 7 September 1986, was the first frequency modulation radio station in the southmost region of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the first radio to broadcast through the internet, in the same region (1996).

Luís Fernando Gaúcho

Luís Fernando Gaúcho was discovered playing in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul by the director of América Futebol Clube (SP).

Parides klagesi

Because of the prior CITES listing and apparent rarity, this species was placed in the endangered species list for the northern Brazilian state of Pará.

Pesqueira

Pesqueira, Pernambuco, a municipality of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco

Piuma

Piúma, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo

Prado River

The Prado River is a small river near Jaborandi in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Purubora language

Specifically it is spoken in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in Costa Marques and around the headwaters of the Rio São Miguel tributary of the right bank of the Guaporé.

Quarteto em Cy

Quarteto em Cy (a play on words of the Portuguese for Quartet in B by poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes) is a Brazilian girl group originally composed of four sisters hailing from Ibirataia, a town located in the Brazilian state of Bahia: Cybele, Cylene, Cynara and Cyva - their real first names.

São Mateus River

The São Mateus River rises in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the municipality of São Félix de Minas, where it is known as Braço Sul do Rio São Mateus (the southern branch) or Rio Cricaré.

They Killed Sister Dorothy

The film traces the reasons of the murder of Dayton, Ohio, native Dorothy Mae Stang, a 73-year-old nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order who fought for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Vasco Fernandes Coutinho

Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo (1490-1561), founder of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo