Around forty million years ago, when the Andes began to form themselves by pushing up from the earth, a vast inland sea burst through from what is now known as the main Amazon basin. The natural bursting point was more or less the site of modern-day ÓBIDOS. The huge sea squeezed itself through where […]
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The population of Brazil is around 180 million, making it the fifth most populous country in the world. Of this, about 55 percent is white (Portuguese, German, Italian, etc), 38 percent of mixed white and black descent and 6 percent black, with "others" (including Amerindian) accounting for a mere 1 percent.
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