BRAZIL WONDERFUL TOWN

The Federative Republic of Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil Portuguese) is the largest country in South America and fifth in the world. It limits with all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador. In northern borders Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, on the south by Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by Bolivia and Peru. The national capital is Brasilia, which replaced Rio de Janeiro in 1960. Having been Salvador de Bahia the first national capital, Brasilia was then the third largest city to be the capital of Brazil. The discoverer of Brazil was a Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral, who sighted land on April 21 in the year 1500 and came to the region today Porto Seguro (Bahia) on 22 April the same year. The de facto occupation of the land recently discovered began in 1532 with the founding of the people of Saint Vincent by Martin Afonso de Souza. In 1549 founded the first capital of Brazil, the city of Salvador, in the province of Bahia. During the sixteenth century slavery was tested initially by indigenous people, and only in recent decades were introduced captive Africans.

A crucial for the emergence of Brazil as a nation state was movement, in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, in the capital from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro implication being allocation to the category of Brazil kingdom, a kingdom within the UK Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve (1807 - 1821), to dissolve peacefully this kingdom emerged from the Empire Brazil. Independence was proclaimed on September 7, 1822 by the son of the king of Portugal. Don Pedro I established a constitutional monarchy, the economy based on slave labor. During the century slave labor was gradually replaced by European immigrants, especially Germans and Italians. The leap to the modernization continues with the abolition of slavery (May 13, 1888), done in his time and critical of the monarchy (November 15, 1889). Brazil's economy is the most powerful in Latin America and the tenth globally, with a GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in nominal value of 1,177,706 million in 2007, according to the central bank of this country. Today is an agricultural superpower, taking a leadership position in many products such as coffee, meat, soybeans, sugar, poultry meat, orange and others. It is also an industrialized country and a large exporter of automobiles, mobile phones and airplanes (the Brazilian company Embraer is the world's largest aviation medium and small-size).

CLIMATE

The weather in Brazil is opposite to Europe, Asia and North America to be in the south of the globe, except in the northern region. Thus, the winter runs from June to August, with average temperatures ranging between 12 ° C and 17 ° C. The summer lasts from December to February, with an average temperature of 28 ° C. The average annual temperature is around 27 ° C in the north and 19 ° C in the south

TOURISM

Brazil is the country that receives more tourists in South America. Since 1995, tourism became viewed as strategic activities by the Brazilian federal government. The National Tourism Policy, implemented by the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), is online teacher practice of tourism as a way to promote the preservation of the natural and cultural heritage of the country besides the recovery of man as the final recipient of development tourism.

My dream is to know someday this country and be able to play soccer in the Maracana stadium with the football stars of Brazil.