Central Brazil

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Central Brazil

• Kate Cerully
• Lucas Stone
• Mandy Schenkemeyer
• Caitlin Czajka
• Brian Drago
• Kevin Tamm

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Mato Grosso, Goiás, and Mato Grosso do Sul
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Rio De Janeiro
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The City of Rio De Janeiro

• Population 6,150,000
• (larger metro area 10-13 million)
• Brazil's second largest city to Sao Paulo
• City residents known as Cariocas

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Beaches

• Ipanema
• One of the most
• expensive places
• to live in Rio
• Beer and cachaca
• sold on the
• beach for 1.25
• Fun Fact Made famous by song Girl From Ipanema

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Beaches

• Copacabana
• famous for its
• 4 km beach
• About 400,000
• people live there
• Fun Fact The song Copacabana by Barry Manilow
  is NOT about the city, but instead named after a
  New York Nightclub

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Sugarloaf Mountain(Pão de Açúcar )

• Mountain made of granite
• Starts at Morro da Urca
• 720ft above sea level Urca
• Take cable car to Sugar Loaf 1300 ft above sea
  level

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Corcovado

• 2,330 ft granite peak
• Known as Cristo Redentor, or Christ the
  Redeemer
• Fun Fact Famous visitors include Pope Pius XII,
  Pope John Paul II, Albert Einstein, and Princess
  Diana

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Economy of Central Brazil
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Agriculture

• Most of the economy of Central Brazil is based on
  Agriculture.
• Major products include Soy, Cocoa, Coffee,
  Corn, Beans and Rice.
• Another major export for the region is timber
  especially Mogno and Cerejeira trees.

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Cattle-Raising

• Since 1998, Brazil's beef exports have tripled
• Brazil is on course this year to pass Australia
  as the world's top exporter of beef .
• Brazilian Beef is presently banned by the US.

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Tourism

• The Many natural wonders of Brazil bring in a
  large amount of tourism which boosts the economy.

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Central BrazilIndustries
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Cattle Industry

• Central Brazil has substantial areas of grassland
  with only scattered trees
• The Brazilian grasslands are less fertile than
  those of North America and are generally more
  suited for grazing

Brazilian Cow making love to the camera
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• Central Brazil is home to the countrys capital,
  Brasília
• One of the main tourist attractions in Brasília
  is Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn )
• In the Valley, there are two types of people
  mediums who consider themselves the
  reincarnation of an extraterrestrial people and
  clients who seek help for their spiritual or
  personal problems

Tourism Industry
The Valley of Dawn
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Tourism Industry

• The Brazilian government is now promoting tourism
  with massive international campaigns
• The campaign budget is 6.36 million to 9.5
  millions US dollars

Santos, Brazil
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Technology

• Banco Central do Brasil
• SISBACEN
• Electronic transfers
• Bill payment
• Checking

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• Central National Television digital system
• LTNet learning link technology
• Alternative fuel sources sugar cane
• Space Program

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• Lucent Technology cellular equipment
  manufacture
• VIVO telecoms
• provider
• 43 new subscribers
• GSM

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Social Factors in Central Brazil

• Population 11.616.750 people Only 6.4 of
  total population
• 7.2 people/km²
• Area 1.612.077,2 km² about 25 of total
• GDP 40 billion U.S. Dollars 8 of total GDP

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More Social Aspects

• white (mainly of European, mostly Portuguese
  origin) 55
• mixed white and black, or mulattos 38
• black 6 and the remaining
• 1 Amerindian (Indian), South East Asian or Arab
  in origin.
• Average woman estimated to have 2.3 children.

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Poverty

• UN Human Development index based on comparative
  measure of poverty, literacy, education, life
  expectancy, childbirth 0.795
• Top thirty countries HDI range from 0.963 down
  to 0.878
• Underpaid workers -75 a month
• Poorly maintained Juvenile Detention centers
• Large percentage of population lives in cities
  because mechanization elimates(d) farm jobs

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Other Information

• Climate Savanna-like (hot, with relative little
  precipitation during the year) in the northeast
  and the east Tropical in the east and in the
  west Equatorial in the north
• Largest Cities Brasília (2.043.169) founded in
  1960 to help spur economy, Goiânia, Campo Grande,
  Cuiabá, Aparecida de Goiânia, Anápolis, Corumbá
• The government has set aside many areas in this
  region for the native Indian tribes which once
  inhabited them.

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Crime in Central Brazil

• The most dangerous cities are Sao Paulo and Rio
  de Janeiro
• 45-54 seem to be most afraid of street crime
• Women are more of crimeafraid then men

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Political Pressures of Central Brazil

• Landless workers movement
• Large Farmers associations
• Also evangelical Christian religious groups and
  the catholic church

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Politics of Central Brazil

• Compulsory voting for those between 18 and 70
  years of age
• Brazil is a bicameral government with 3 elected
  officials from each state
• Governor of Mato Grosso, one of the largest
  states in central Brazil is Blairo Maggi