Brazil
Location: South America
Capital: Brasilia
Language: Portuguese
Population: 210,000,000
Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant
Industries: car, food, metallurgy, chemicals, textiles and tourism.
Agriculture products: cacao, coffee, fruits, wheat, beans, sugar.
Generally speaking:
- At the time of Portuguese arrival in Brazil (the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500) it is estimated that on the territory lived few thousand tribes.
- During Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal, Rio de Janeiro (established in 1567) was the capital of the Portugal and Portuguese empire (from 1808 to 1815).
- The Amazon River (flows through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela) is the largest river in the world by volume.