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unusual facts about Sinop, Mato Grosso



Aglae

Recent studies have extended the range by about 2,400 km southwards, when specimens were found in the National Park Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Amambay Department

Pedro Juan Caballero, the capital of the department, is still known by its old name, Punta Porá, used by the traveling merchants that transported yerba from Mato Grosso to Concepción.

Barra do Garças Futebol Clube

Barra do Garças Futebol Clube, commonly known as Barra do Garças, is a Brazilian football club based in Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso state.

Cacerense Esporte Clube

Cacerense Esporte Clube, usually known simply as Cacerense is a Brazilian football club from Cáceres, Mato Grosso state.

Campeonato Sul-Mato-Grossense

Before 1979, the Sul-Mato-Grossense clubs competed in the Campeonato Mato-Grossense, because Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul were a single state.

Ceriomicrodon

The only one known species, Ceriomicrodon petiolatus, lives in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Clube Recreativo Atlético Campoverdense

Clube Recreativo Atlético Campoverdense, commonly known as CRAC, is a Brazilian football club based in Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state.

Dina Lévi-Strauss

In 1936-38 she undertook field research with her husband in Mato Grosso and Rondônia in the Amazon Rainforest, studying the cultures of the Guaycuru and Bororo Indian tribes.

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.

Fuerte Olimpo

At the beginning of Paraguayan War (1865–1870) it was a very important offensive spot in the Mato Grosso, in 1866 Fuerte Olimpo was a strategic place too but it was taken by Brazilians when the campaign ended.

Genocide of indigenous peoples

The Truth Commission is of the opinion that entire tribes in Maranhão were completely eradicated and in Mato Grosso, an attack on thirty Cinturão Largo left only two survivors.

Grêmio Esportivo Jaciara

Grêmio Esportivo Jaciara, usually known simply as Jaciara is a Brazilian football club from Jaciara, Mato Grosso state.

Grigory Langsdorff

After extensive preparations, the Langsdorff Expedition departed with 40 people and 7 boats from Porto Feliz, by the Tietê river on June 22, 1826 and reached Cuiabá, in Mato Grosso on January 30, 1827.

Korucuk

Korucuk a village in the central district of Sinop Province

Kumarlı

Ören, Boyabat, a village in the district of Boyabat, Sinop Province, Turkey

Lyropteryx apollonia

This rare species is widespread in the tropical areas of the South America, particularly in Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso), Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

Mamaindê language

Mamaindê, also known as Northern Nambikwara, is a Nambikwaran language spoken in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil, in the very north of the indigenous reserve, Terra Indígena Vale do Guaporé, between the Pardo and Cabixi Rivers.

Mato Grosso

The historic remoteness of this area led it to be the subject of exploration, most notably by Captain Percy Fawcett, in the quest for lost cities.

It was also the rumored location of access to the interior of the earth in various Hollow Earth theories.

Mixto Esporte Clube

Mixto Esporte Clube, usually known simply as Mixto, is a Brazilian football club from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso state.

Morpho thamyris

The Thamyris Morpho, Morpho thamyris, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Paraguay and Brazil (Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul).

Musca

The Kalapalo people of Mato Grosso state in Brazil called Alpha and Beta Muscae (along with Beta and Kappa Crucis) Kutsu anangagï "Ornate Hawk-eagle's double flutes".

Música sertaneja

It was born from recordings made by journalist and writer Cornélio Pires of "tales" and fragments of traditional songs in the interior of rural São Paulo, north and west of Paraná, south Minas Gerais and Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás and Mato Grosso southeast.

Sertanejo differs from the caipira culture, specifically originating in the area that comprises the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goias, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná.

Neotheora

Neotheora chiloides is known from a single female collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Kristensen, 1999: 60; Nielsen et al., 2000).

Ñuflo de Chaves

In 1557 he planned an expedition to conquer Jarayes lands, and reached today's Brazilian federal state of Mato Grosso, where he thought that he would find gold mines.

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.

Paulo Vinícius de Souza Nascimento

Paulo Vinícius de Souza Nascimento (born 12 August 1984 in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso), known as Paulo Vinícius, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for S.C. Braga in Portugal, as a defender.

Pereskia

Pereskia sacharosa The Gran Chaco including Mato Grosso region (Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay), and lowlands of the Andes in northwestern Argentina at elevations of 1000–2500 m.

Piracema

Piracema is the name given to the period of the year when fish within the Paraguay River drainage basin―which includes the Pantanal region in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul―reproduce.

In the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul it is a crime to fish in any location that has been designated by any environmental institution.

Primavera Esporte Clube

Primavera Esporte Clube, commonly known as Primavera, is a Brazilian football club based in Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso state.

Ricardo Alves Pereira

Ricardo Alves Pereira or simply Ricardinho (born August 8, 1988 in Sinop, Mato Grosso), is a Brazilian footballer, currently plays for Figueirense.

Rondonópolis

Rondonópolis has a small airport, Maestro Marinho Franco Municipal Airport with only one airline TRIP Linhas Aéreas, connecting the city with other cities in the Mato Grosso state such as Alta Floresta, Sinop and Cuiabá.

Santarem Parakeet

It is fairly common in most of its range and occurs in several protected areas, e.g. P. a. amazonum occurs in the Amazônia National Park, Pará, Brazil, while P. a. lucida occurs in the Cristalino State Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Sasha Siemel

He is a legend among sportsmen, having successfully hunted more than 300 jaguars — or “tigres,” as the big cats are colloquially known in parts of Latin America—in the Mato Grosso jungles of Brazil.

Sinop

Sinop Province, the province in Turkey of which the above city is the capital

Sociedade Esportiva Vila Aurora

Sociedade Esportiva Vila Aurora, commonly known as Vila Aurora, is a Brazilian football club based in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso state.

Spelaeogriphacea

Of the three genera, Potiicoara is known only from a cave in Brazil's Mato Grosso, Spelaeogriphus only from a cave on Table Mountain in South Africa, and the two Mangkurtu species only from individual Australian aquifers.

Tangará Esporte Clube

Tangará Esporte Clube, commonly known as Tangará, is a Brazilian football club based in Tangará da Serra, Mato Grosso state.

União Esporte Clube

União Esporte Clube, also known as União de Rondonópolis, are a Brazilian football team from Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso.

Xavante language

The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil.


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