Set in a wonderful tropical landscape on the other side of the bay of São Marcos from São Luís, ALCÂNTARA is now no more than a poor village built around the ruins of what was once the richest town in northern Brazil. São Luís had already eclipsed it by the end of the eighteenth […]
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Almost 90 percent of Brazil's electricity is generated from hydropower, about 6 percent from fossil fuels and 1 percent from nuclear power.
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