Exploitative activities, the industrial importance of the rubber reserves, and the penetration of Brazilian colonists in the region raised the attention of Bolivia, which solicited a better fixation of boundaries.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

Colonists tried to enslave Brazilian natives in the beginning, but this quickly proved too difficult for many reasons, including the familiarity natives had with the land.

A vast majority had nowhere to live, no job and were despised by Brazilian society, which usually saw them as lazy workers.

His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made exceptional ( and outstandingly original ) usage of the digressive technique in the masterful novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

An ongoing co-operation program allows Namibian sailors and naval officers to be trained by the Brazilian Navy ; by 2009, 466 seamen had been trained.

With Brazilian encouragement, López had dropped Francia's policy of neutrality and began meddling in Argentine politics.

The elder López also had infuriated the Brazilians by not helping overthrow Rosas in 1852 and by forcing Brazilian garrisons out of territory claimed by Paraguay in 1850 and 1855.

His accurate political sense failed him only once, when he found himself in 1948 on the wrong side of a failed coup attempt and had to be driven to the Brazilian embassy in the trunk of a car, earning him the nickname " Colonel Trunk ".

Itaipú had prompted a tidal wave of Brazilian migration in the eastern border region of Paraguay.

The country was slowly being repopulated by former Brazilian soldiers who had fought in the War of the Triple Alliance, and Paraguay's government encouraged European immigration.

A Brazilian company in the 1980s had invested $ 300 million for a uranium mine in central Somalia, but no long-term mining took place.

The Uruguayan Chief of Police Intelligence, Alejandro Otero, told a Brazilian newspaper in 1970 that the OPS, especially the head of the OPS in Uruguay, Dan Mitrione, had instructed the Uruguayan police how to torture suspects, especially with electrical implements.

He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French / Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The first proposal for a Brazilian national park aimed at providing a pristine environment to " future generations ", just as " it had been created by God " and endowed with " all possible preservation, from the beautiful to the sublime, from the picturesque to the awesome " and " an unmatched flora " located in the " magnificent Iguaçú waterfalls ".

By 1630, Africans had replaced the Tupani as the largest contingent of labor on Brazilian sugar plantations, heralding equally the final collapse of the European medieval household tradition of slavery, the rise of Brazil as the largest single destination for enslaved Africans and sugar as the reason that roughly 84 % of these Africans were shipped to the New World.

RAINBOW succeeds in preventing the release of the virus at the Olympic games, and Brightling and his collaborators retreat to their Horizon Ark facility in the Brazilian jungle, from which they had originally planned to weather out the global holocaust.

Another account was documented by biologist George A. Boulenger from a Brazilian physician named Dr. Bach, who examined a man and several boys whose penises had been amputated.

Other pavilions included one featuring Brazilian tea and coffee ; a European Communities Pavilion from the then six countries of the European Economic Community ; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence.

In 1961, the country had just adopted the parliamentary government system, but in a referendum held in 1963, the Brazilian population was consulted about which government system should be withheld in the country and it was decided to have Brazil return to a Presidential system.

In South America, also during the early 20th century, free-ranging boars were introduced in Uruguay for hunting purposes and eventually crossed the border into Brazil sometime during the 1990s, quickly becoming an invasive species, licensed private hunting of both feral boars and hybrids ( javaporcos ) being allowed from August 2005 on in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, although their presence as a pest had been already noticed by the press as early as 1994.

In 2001, he met Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen with whom he had an on-and-off relationship until their separation in 2005.

In capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, the slaves had nicknames to protect them from being caught, as practicing capoeira was illegal for decades.

The Brazilian educationalist Paulo Freire, known for developing popular education, advanced dialogue as a type of pedagogy.

During those years, he studied advanced harmony with Moacir Santos, released recordings in the Brazilian labels Elenco and Forma, as well as in the French label Barclay and the German label MPS / Saba ( notably, his 1966 Tristeza on Guitar, considered by many to be a high point in his career ).

Due this fact, Barreto adopted a simple style in his books, with less advanced vocabulary, so he could be understood by a majority of the Brazilian society.

It also offers advanced non-degree programs, many of them conducted in other Brazilian States, such as Bahia, Amazonas, Rondônia, Goiás and Rio Grande do Norte.

Different types can be found, like Piccolo snares, that have a smaller depth for a higher pitch, rope-tuned snares ( Maracatu snare ) and the Brazilian " Tarol ", that commonly has snares on the top of the upper drumhead.

Brazilian Navy using depth charges aimed at U-boats

In the fight against German submarines, Brazilian frigates and submarines used sea mines and depth charges.

A Brazilian Navy ship launches depth charges against German submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic ( 1939 – 1945 ) | Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.

The Essequibo, the country's major river, runs from the Brazilian border in the south to a wide delta west of Georgetown.

Gauchos were generally nomadic, and lived in the Pampas, the plain that extends north from Patagonia, bounded on the west by the Andes and extending on the east to Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

BR-262 links Campo Grande to Corumbá and Bolivia to the west, and the Brazilian State of São Paulo to the east.

The Ucayali Region is bordered by the Brazilian state of Acre on the east ; the region of Madre de Dios on the southeast ; Cusco on the south ; Junín, Pasco and Huánuco on the west ; and Loreto on the north.

All three highways extend about from east to west and are now completely paved, as are a network of nine Brazilian highways in Mato Grosso do Sul State.

Luz is a Brazilian municipality located in the West ( south of the west ) part of the state of Minas Gerais.

Campos Altos is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais.

It lies in the Brazilian state of Pará, west of Marajó and near the confluence of the Amazon and the Xingu.

Água Comprida is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais.

It lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas.

It is situated between the Sierra Leone Basin to the north / northeast, the South Atlantic Basin to the east / southeast, the Northern Brazilian Basin to the south / southwest, and North Atlantic Ridge to the west / northwest.

Fronteira is a municipality in the west of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

Frutal is a municipality in the west of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.