What is the Special in Brazil?

Brazil has 21 Unesco World Heritage Sites. Among the best known is the Iguacu National Park, home to one of the world’s largest and most impressive waterfalls at 1.7 miles wide and with a total of 275 drops.

According to a recent study, the Mantaro River in southwestern Peru is the source of the mighty Amazon River. The World’s longest river flows through Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela.

The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world and the world’s largest river by volume.

35% of men from rural Brazil have had sex with an animal, a study found.

It is also occupied by several rare and endangered species, among them the giant otter and the giant anteater.

The Amazon Jungle has the greatest biodiversity on the planet.

There are 5 main geographical regions that Brazil is divided into. They are North, Northeast, Central-West, Southeast, and South.

Among the newest are the Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a garden city project by Oscar Niemeyer, added by Unesco in 2016, and the Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site, inscribed in 2017.

Brazil has 64 national parks and more than 200 conservation units.

Brazilian prisoners can reduce their sentence by 4 days every month for every book they read and write a report about.

Some 1.5 million-2.5 million Brazilians are of Japanese descent.

Brazilian athletes funded their trip to the 1932 Olympics by selling coffee along the way.

One of the interesting parks – Lencóis Maranhenses National Park is home to sand dunes that are formed by wind and ocean currents. The dunes can reach heights of 40 meters.

Prisoners in Brazil could also pedal a stationary bicycle in the prison to provide electricity to a nearby town. This would also help reduce their sentence by a few days.

The largest population of Catholics in the world is not in Italy nor Spain. It's in Brazil: 123 million, 64% of its population.

Brazil has the fifth largest population in the world estimated to be over 200 million people.

If you were to buy an Apple iPhone in Brazil, you would have to pay almost twice the price for the phone as if you had bought it in the United States.

Many immigrants brought with them seedlings of cherry trees and cherry blossoms can be viewed outside homes in Sao Paulo, and in public parks in Curitiba.

There are 13 cities with more than one million people in Brazil.

Due to financial crises in 1932, Brazilian athletes had to sell coffee on their way to the Los Angeles Olympics. The country has been the world’s largest exporter of coffee for 150 years.

Brazil is the world's first country to ban tanning beds.

Around 6.4 million tourists visit Brazil each year, one of the fewest of any country in the world as a percentage of its total population.

Sao Paulo has over 11 million residents and Rio de Janeiro over six million.

In areas around Brazil and Argentina, the earth’s magnetic field has been found to be weakening, specifically for the last 180 years.

Half of them head to Rio.