The city of Olinda, located a few kilometers north of Recife in Brazil, was founded by the Portuguese in 1535, and was one of the first settlements founded by Europeans in Brazil. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the city became the capital of the Capitania of Pernambuco. But after the Dutch occupation of […]
The state of Rio Grande do Norte is located in the Northeast of Brazil, wedged between the Brazilian states of Ceará and Paraíba, and washed by the Atlantic ocean. Its dimensions are comparable to those of the Balkan state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Atol das Rocas which are located in the Atlantic Ocean about […]
The state of Rio Grande do Norte has a warm tropical climate, with significant differences in rainfall between the hot and humid coast and the hot and dry interior. Temperatures are fairly constant in every season of the year and vary between the hottest month and the coldest month by a few degrees. The hottest […]
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil. Its territory to the east has a long coastal strip bordered by the Atlantic ocean, while to the south it borders Uruguay, to the west with Argentina, to the north is the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The border with Argentina and part of that […]
The climate of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is temperate / humid sub-tropical. Its position in the extreme south of the country means that in general there are four seasons relatively well defined as regards the values of temperatures, but with rainfall well distributed throughout the year. The summers, which occur in […]
The state of Santa Catarina is the smallest state in the southern region of Brazil (Região Sul do Brasil). However, this is also between the states with the highest standard of living in Brazil. The capital of the state is the city of Florianópolis, located in a magnificent position along the coast of the island […]
The state of Santa Catarina, located in the southern part of Brazil, has a type of humid sub-tropical climate with rainfall well distributed throughout the year, with not too high variations in seasonal temperatures and with four well-defined seasons, the winters are cold especially in the highlands. The rains are slightly less abundant in the […]
The state of Sergipe is the smallest of the Brazilian states except for the Federal District where the capital Brasilia is located. Its dimensions are slightly higher than those of Slovenia. Sergipe is bathed in the east by the Atlantic Ocean, bordered by Alagoas in the north, while the state of Bahia is in the […]
The climate of Sergipe is tropical hot and humid along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, while inland it becomes drier, becoming a semi-arid climate in the driest part of the Sertão. Temperatures are quite high and vary little in the various seasons. The main rains occur along the coast where the rainy season starts […]
The state of São Paulo is by far the most important in Brazil. This state from an economic point of view produces a third of the wealth of the whole country and hosts a fifth of the Brazilian population. This Brazilian region was colonized by the Portuguese from 1532, when they founded the town of […]
The state of São Paulo has a sub-tropical and tropical climate deeply influenced by the altitude, most of the state, located on the highlands, is affected by the tropical climate of altitude and the sub-tropical climate. In particular, the areas of the Paulista plateau (Planalto Paulista) and the plateaus over 400/500 meters high which occupy […]
Paraíba is a small state that is part of the Northeast region of Brazil. This state has a short stretch of coast along the Atlantic ocean and is surrounded by the territories of Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará and Pernambuco. Here is the eastern end of Brazil and the entire American continent, the Ponta do […]
Paraíba has a hot humid tropical climate with abundant rains along the coast, which becomes drier in the interior of the state becoming semi-arid in the western region of Sertão Paraíbano. Along the coast, the rains exceed 2,000 mm per year, the rainy season lasts from February to August, while the driest months are from […]
The state of Minas Gerais is one of the largest states in Brazil, is in second place by population after that of São Paulo, while it is the fourth largest in the country. The Minas Gerais by extension of its territory exceeds France. From an economic point of view, Minas Gerais ranks third among the […]
The climate of Minas Gerais is generally the tropical climate of altitude, only in the less elevated areas the climate becomes tropical, both these types of climate have two seasons according to the rainfall. Temperatures vary with altitude variation. In most of the state, which is located at altitudes varying between 600 and 900 meters, […]