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unusual facts about Southern Brazil



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.

Mato Grosso do Sul

In the Cerrado areas, mostly in the south, central and east, there is a predominance of Southern Brazilian farmers of German, Portuguese and Italian descent.


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A. niger

Acromyrmex niger, an ant species found in southern Brazil and Paraguay

Amphibious rat

Lundomys molitor, Lund's amphibious rat, of Uruguay and southern Brazil

Anita Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi, a Nicois sailor of Ligurian ascent turned Italian nationalist revolutionary, had fled Europe in 1836 and was fighting on behalf of a separatist republic in southern Brazil (the Ragamuffin War).

Black grouper

It is associated with rocky or coral reefs, but is not dependent on them; it is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, USA, in the north to southern Brazil, but is particularly associated with the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

Buddleja hatschbachii

Buddleja hatschbachii is a rare species found only in the wet ravines and rock slopes flanking the east side of the planalto of southern Brazil.

Burmeister's porpoise

Its range appears to be continuous in coastal waters from northern Peru in the Pacific round Tierra del Fuego and up to southern Brazil in the Atlantic.

David Schurmann

Between 2009 and 2012 he produced and directed the documentary film & series U-513 Lonely Wolf, about the great search and find of the German submarine U-513 sunk in the coast of southern Brazil.

Degredado

João Ramalho was either a degredado or a shipwrecked sailor (uncertain which), who was left in southern Brazil c.

Epapterus dispilurus

Epapterus dispilurus is a species of driftwood catfish distributed in the central and western parts of the Amazon River basin along and south of the main channel of the Amazon River, and Paraguay River basin in Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil.

Hunsrückisch dialect

Throughout its almost 200-year history in Southern Brazil and Espírito Santo, Hunsrückisch has been greatly influenced by other German dialects such as Pomeranian, Swabian, and Austro-Bavarian, by other immigrant languages, and by Portuguese.

Narrowfin smooth-hound

The narrowfin smooth-hound (also called Florida smooth-hound), Mustelus norrisi, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical western Atlantic from Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela, and also southern Brazil, between latitudes 32° N and 36° S, from the surface to 100 m.

New World quail

The family ranges from Canada through to southern Brazil, and two species, the California Quail and the Bobwhite Quail, have been successfully introduced to New Zealand.

Roberta Lima

Roberta Lima studied Architecture and Urban Planning at Unisinos in southern Brazil and then went on to complete her graduate studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

S. uliginosa

Salvia uliginosa, the bog sage, a herbaceous perennial plant species native to southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina

Southern Cone

Araucaria angustifolia, once widespread in Southern Brazil, is now a critically endangered species, protected by law.

Xanthocastnia

Xanthocastnia is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae containing only one species, Xanthocastnia evalthe, which is widespread in the Neotropical ecozone, ranging from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.