The population count is of great importance to Brazil's cities, because the annual grant of funds from the Municipalities Participation Fund is determined mainly by the estimates of population variation provided by IBGE, which directly influence the calculation of the coefficients used to transfer the fund to the municipalities.

The action of the novel begins in 1925 in the provincial port of Ilhéus in Brazil's north-eastern state of Bahia.

Both cities are located in the ABCD Region, home to most of Brazil's automobile manufacturing facilities ( such as Ford, Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and others ) and are among the most industrialized in the country.

The station and surrounding facilities have been turned into Brazil's largest railway museum, and a tourist railway operates from the station to Tiradentes.

Brazil's fast growing economy, and especially the growth in exports, will place increasing demands on the transport networks.

Brazil's push for nationalization of the computer-related industry in the 1970s also began with the navy, which could not decipher the " black box " computerized range-finding and firing mechanisms on the British frigates they had purchased, and did not want to be dependent on imported maintenance.

Brazil's international relations are based on article 4 of the Federal Constitution, which establishes non-intervention, self-determination, international cooperation and the peaceful settlement of conflicts as the guiding principles of Brazil's relationship with other countries and multilateral organizations.

The foreign policy under the Rousseff administration has sought to deepen Brazil's regional commercial dominance and diplomacy, expand Brazil's presence in Africa, and play a major role in the G20 on climate change and in other multilateral settings.

The United States Department of State approved of closer ties between Brazil and Paraguay and especially supported Brazil's offer to finance a road project designed to reduce Paraguay's dependence on Argentina.

Brazil's financing of the US $ 19 billion Itaipú Dam on the Río Paraná between Paraguay and Brazil had far-reaching consequences for Paraguay ; it had no means of contributing financially to the construction, but its cooperation, including controversial concessions regarding ownership of the construction site and the rates for which Paraguay agreed to sell its share of the electricity, was essential.

* Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil's daughter, died of typhoid Fever on 7 February 1871.

* December 29 – Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $ 32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for 8 years.

Reinaldo de Azevedo, columnist of the right-wingVeja mazagine, Brazil's most read weekly publication, called the GGB's methodology " unscientific " based on the above objection: that they make no distinction between murders motivated by bias and those that were not.

In 1930, she was known to be Brazil's gem singer, and in 1933 went on to sign a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, becoming the first contract singer in the radio industry history of Brazil.

Brazil's Consul General Jorió Gama was on hand for opening remarks, as were members of Bando da Lua, Carmen Miranda's original band.

Other Grouches include Bodoque on Mexico's Plaza Sésamo, Gugu on Brazil's Vila Sesamo, Kirpik on Turkey's Susam Sokağı, Ferrão on Portugal's Rua Sésamo, and Kewal Khadoosa on India's Galli Galli Sim Sim.

On November 16, 2011, Miramax announced a multi-year digital licensing agreement to stream a broad range of films to Netflix members in the U. K. and Ireland, and on November 21, 2011, Brazil's NetMovies and Miramax entered into a multi-year movie streaming agreement.

The AV-VBL developed by Brazil's Tectran is also an AFV family based on the Unimog.

Brazil's coach, Vicente Feola, imposed strict rules on the squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, held in Sweden.

Many criticized the decision to reinstate Ronaldo into the starting lineup as he put on a poor performance another reason that had been given for Brazil's poor performance was lack of preparation.

1994 World Cup-winning captain Dunga was hired as Brazil's new team manager on July 24, 2006, almost right after the World Cup was over.

Brazil's effort in World War I occurred mainly in the Atlantic campaign, with a smaller participation in the land warfare.

Deforestation of Brazil's Atlantic Forest c. 1820-1825

Brazil's dependence on factory-made goods and loans from the technologically, economically, and politically superior North Atlantic retarded its domestic industrial base.

The Alcântara Launch Center () is a satellite launching base of the Brazilian Space Agency in the city of Alcântara, located on Brazil's northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão.

* South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, created in 1986 through a UN resolution on Brazil's initiative

Along a roughly 500-mile portion of Brazil's Atlantic coast that runs from north of Rio de Janeiro up to the region south of Bahia, the sands of old beaches are naturally radioactive.

* 1999: Rescuing Brazil's Atlantic Forests (£ 130, 000 )

Nevertheless, its importance to the Portuguese-Italian trade relations should not be understated ; this map provided the Italians with knowledge of Brazil's coastline and that of much of the Atlantic Coast of South America long before other nations even knew South America extended so far to the south.

By maintaining permanent occupation of the archipelago, the Brazilian Navy extends Brazil's Exclusive Economic Zone, territorial waters and airspace into the North Atlantic Ocean.

The Parnaíba River rises in the Chapada das Mangabeiras range, and flows northeastward for 1, 056 miles ( 1, 700 kilometers ) to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, being the longest river entirely located within Brazil's Northeast Region.

In South America, the Blue-headed Parrot is mainly an Amazonian species, including in the southeast the neighboring Araguaia-Tocantins River system as its eastern limit ; a disjunct population lives southeastwards on Brazil's South Atlantic coast, a coastal strip from Pernambuco in the north to Espírito Santo state in the south, about 1500 km long.

* The British Birdwatching Fair has Brazil's Atlantic forests as its theme for the year.

The ecoregion covers an area of, and includes several well-defined enclaves that range along the Atlantic coast from Brazil's northeast to southeast, extending from the tropics to the subtropics.

The Third Army was also important because of its shared border with Argentina ( Brazil's traditional rival in Latin America ) and Uruguay.

Their intention was never to develop a large arsenal but to have the technical capability to produce the arms needed for Brazil's military.

Solano López then struck at his enemy's main force in Uruguay ; he was, however unaware that Argentina had acquiesced to Brazil's Uruguay policy and would not support Paraguay against Brazil.

It flows through four Brazilian states ( Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará ) and gives its name to one of Brazil's newest states, formed in 1988 from what was until then the northern portion of Goiás.

In 1993, another referendum to decide Brazil's government system was held.

Mostly due to the efforts of the Villas-Bôas brothers, Brazil's first indian reserve, the Xingu National Park, was established by the Federal Government in 1961.

Brazil's new bid was very similar to the mooted 1942 bid and was quickly accepted.

In 2009, a survey conducted by the University of São Paulo in 10 Brazilian state capitals, estimated that 7. 8 % of Brazil's male population was gay and 2. 6 % was bisexual ( a total of 10. 4 %), while 4. 9 % of the female population was estimated to be lesbian and 1. 4 % bisexual ( a total of 6. 3 %).

Collor was later acquitted of ordinary criminal charges in his judicial trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal, for lack of valid evidence.

Brazil's ( and Latin America's ) first electric car was introduced in late 1974 ; it received the name " Itaipu " in honor of the project.

On January 26, 2001 a number of activists with Brazil's Movimento dos Sem-Terra ( MST ) reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness, which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples, tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Não-me-Toque, 300 km from Porto Alegre, where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time.

During Brazil's military rule period, the president was elected by an electoral college comprising senators, deputies, state deputies, and lawmakers in the cities.

It was led by Brazil's Sergio Vieira de Mello ( Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor ) and the Philippines's Lieutenant General Jaime de los Santos ( Supreme Commander of the United Nations ' Peacekeeping Force ( PKF )).

Against a weaker Argentine side, the Brazilians applied heavy pressure and had numerous chances to score, but it was Claudio Caniggia who managed to find Brazil's net and eliminate them after a brilliant assist from Maradona.