A monitor is a relatively small warship which is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First World War and with limited use in the Second World War.. The original monitor was designed in 1861 by John Ericsson, who named it USS Monitor.They were designed for shallow waters and …

A ideia de transposição das águas do rio São Francisco remonta à década de 1840, no tempo do Império do Brasil sob o reinado de Dom Pedro II, já sendo vista, por alguns intelectuais de então, como a única solução para a seca do Nordeste.Os dois anos de estiagem que o Nordeste enfrentou – de 1844 a 1845 – motivaram o intendente da comarca do Crato, no Ceará, Marcos …

São José dos Campos (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w̃ ʒuˈzɛ dus ˈkɐ̃pus], meaning Saint Joseph of the Fields) is a major city and the seat of the municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.One of the leading industrial and research centers with emphasis in aerospace sciences in Latin America, the city is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most ...

Location. The park covers parts of the municipalities of Palmeiras, Mucugê, Lençóis, Ibicoara and Andaraí in the state of Bahia.. Terrain. The park is in the Chapada Diamantina, a plateau bounded by cliffs of 41,751 square kilometres (16,120 sq mi) in central Bahia.Altitudes in the plateau typically vary from 500 to 1,000 metres (1,600 to 3,300 ft).

The Zona da Mata comprises the rainforest zones of Nordeste (part of the Atlantic Forest or Mata Atlântica) in the humid eastern coast, where the region's largest capital cities are also located.The forest area was much larger before suffering from centuries of deforestation and exploration. For many years, sugar cane cultivation in this region was the mainstay of Brazil's economy, being ...

Americana (Portuguese pronunciation: [ameɾiˈkɐnɐ]) is a municipality (município) located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The original settlement developed around the local railway station, founded in 1875, and the development of a cotton weaving factory in a nearby farm.. After 1866, thousands of former Confederate …

Tourism in Brazil is a growing sector and key to the economy of several regions of Brazil.The country had 6.589 million visitors in 2018, ranking in terms of the international tourist arrivals as the second main destination in South America after Argentina and third in Latin America after Mexico and Argentina. Revenues from international tourists reached US$5.8 billion in 2015, …

Topônimo. Segundo o tupinólogo Eduardo Navarro, una em tupi significa "preto, escuro". [2]Bacia hidrográfica. A bacia hidrográfica do Una assemelha-se a um grande losango recortado no sentido oeste-leste, sendo que seus eixos principal e secundário medem, respectivamente, cerca de 240 e 70 quilômetros. [3]A bacia do rio Una limita-se ao norte, com as bacias dos rios …

História. Estima-se que o futebol tenha sido introduzido no Piauí por volta de 1905, através de ingleses, em Parnaíba.No dia 27 de julho de 1906, surgiu o Theresinense Foot-Ball Club, primeiro clube futebolístico do estado. [1] O Parnahyba, por sua vez, fundado em 1913, detém o posto de agremiação mais antiga ainda em atividade. [1] [2]O primeiro campeonato foi …

The concept of "national park" was first defined in the 1934 forest code. The system of national parks started in 1937 with the creation of Itatiaia National Park. Another two national parks were created in 1939, then after a period of 20 years, the program of park creation was restarted in the late 1950s. The Ubajara National Park was created in 1959, protecting a limestone cave in the …