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If you are our regular reader, you know that we have already given you an idea of the absurd size of Brazil. But a country the size of ours has much more than data on its immensity. And that’s what we’re going to talk about here.
O awesome.club now presents 10 curiosities about Brazil that you probably didn’t know or maybe didn’t realize. Come on in with us!
10. The rivers of the Amazon basin run a fifth of all the fresh water on the planet
The grandeur of the Amazon Basin is frightening even to Brazilians. In addition to the gigantic Amazon River, the largest river in the world (by certain parameters, it is longer than the Nile), some of its tributaries, such as the Negro and Solimões rivers, are also among the largest in the world. To get an idea of the size of the basin (which is about 60% of its size in Brazil): with 7.5 million square kilometers, it is larger than the sum of all the countries of the European Union.
9. There was a time when it was possible to carry a 500,000 note inside the wallet
On March 16, 1990, the Cruzado Novo stopped circulating and the Cruzeiro returned to being the currency of Brazil four years after being “retired”. The banknote with the highest face value was the 500,000 cruzeiros banknote stamped with the image of the poet and writer Mário de Andrade. The country was experiencing times of very high inflation and for this reason it is not possible to compare those 500,000 with what this figure means today.
8. Our annual banana production is equivalent to 88 Boeing with maximum take-off weight
That’s right. Imagine a Boeing 737-800 with maximum take-off weight: it has, in this case, 79 tons. Annual banana production in Brazil is 6,953,747 tons, or just over 88 times the weight of the plane with the maximum load it can carry. How many of these bananas do you eat? It is estimated that each Brazilian consumes 20 kilos per year.
7. Portuguese is one of the 180 languages spoken in Brazil
Portuguese is the official language and you have probably never heard someone speaking another “Brazilian” language. But it is estimated that there are more than 180 in the country, spoken by approximately 160,000 people. As Aryon Rodrigues, a linguist at UnB told “Superinteressante”, almost all these languages of indigenous origin are threatened with extinction.
6. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the territory that today corresponds to Acre belonged to Bolivia
A dispute that had its origin in the race for the extraction of latex was responsible for a conflict between Brazil and Bolivia that, in 1903, led to the signing of the Treaty of Petrópolis. In it, it was agreed that the Bolivians would cede to Brazil the region that is now the state of Acre and, in exchange, they would receive two territories close to the Abunã and Paraguay rivers and another 2,000 pounds. At 151,000 square kilometers, Acre is roughly the same size as Nepal and Tunisia.
5. Brazil produces more than a third of all the world’s coffee
Recognized for having some of the best coffee in the world, Brazil also places the bean in most of the world’s cups. According to data from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), 36% of world coffee production in 2018 left the country. 58 million of the 160 million bags produced on the planet were from here.
4. In Brazil, there are already more smartphones than people
According to research released by Fundação Getúlio Vargas in April 2018, even though it is a country marked by social inequality, Brazil already had 220 million active smartphones, which at the time already exceeded the number of inhabitants, estimated at 210 million people. . In 2017, almost 50 million smartphones were sold, a number 15 times greater than the number of simpler cell phones.
3. Brazil is the country with the most Japanese living outside Japan
According to the Consulate General of Japan in São Paulo, there are about 1.5 million Japanese people living in Brazil, more than 400,000 of them in the city. There is even a neighborhood in São Paulo, Liberdade, whose origin is totally linked to the Japanese, but which today also represents Chinese and Koreans. Among the gifts brought by immigrants at the beginning of the last century and added to Brazilian culture today are judo, Buddhism and tea — oh, and Japanese food, of course.
2. The State of Tocantins was ‘born’ in the same year as the singers Gusttavo Lima and Taylor Swift
The territory that today forms the State of Tocantins was, until 1988, part of Goiás. It was emancipated on October 5, 1988, by the National Constituent Assembly, and the installation took place in 1989, the same year that the Brazilian singer (September 3) and the American singer (December 13) were born. Another curiosity: while it belonged to Goiás, the territory was part of the Midwest region, but it moved to the North when it was emancipated.
1. The oldest known tree in Brazil was born about 1,000 years before Christ
A pink jequitibá in the São Paulo city of Santa Rita do Passa Quatro is the oldest tree in Brazil and is estimated to be over 3,000 years old. Its numbers are impressive: they are 40 meters high, equivalent to a 13-story building, more than 11 meters in diameter and roots that reach 18 meters deep. Its weight was calculated at 264 tons.
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