Brazilian Rodeo: The Festa do Peão in Barretos, São Paulo State |
In recent decades Brazil’s National Rodeo League has developed into a major sport. Many cities host major competitions, but without a doubt the flagship encounter is the annual Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro in Barretos, a town of over 100,000 located 440 kilometers outside São Paulo. In his book River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil, anthropologist Alexander Sebastian Dent of The George Washington University describes the Barretos rodeo. This is an adapted excerpt from the book.
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Diving in the Abismo Anhumas Cavern, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul |
Abismo Anhumas, a cavern near Bonito in Mato Grosso, was discovered in the late 1970s when a fire stripped the land's surface. The chamber expands into a space as big as a soccer field.
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Amazon Road: Travel BR 163 through the Rainforest |
Most of Brazil’s Great Soy Road, about 900 kilometers of it, remains unpaved. The Word Wildlife Fund in an understated way notes “many of the paved parts are in desperate need of repair.” To drive to Santarém is not a weekend jaunt; Brasília is 2,910 kilometers away, Sao Paulo 3,922 and Rio de Janeiro 4,411. But what makes this road really important it has become Brazil’s soy highway and economically probably just as important as the vaunted silk road that traversed Asia.
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The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) |
A little background on the history of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)
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Inhotim Cultural Institute, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais |
Founded in 2005, Inhotim spreads about a stretch of converted farmland owned by mining magnate and art collector Bernardo Paz. The official literature calls it "an environmental park and modern art museum. It is a place of production of knowledge created from an artistic and botanic collection."
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Acre Travel Guide |
Our overview of the state of Acre.
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