After the villages that have gone before, PETROLINA seems like a city. Certainly, by the standards of the sertão, it’s a large, thriving and relatively prosperous town, thanks to the river trade to places downstream. On the waterfront, you can occasionally see riverboats adorned with carrancas, carved wooden figureheads bolted onto the prow, brightly […]
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By far the largest country in South America, Brazil covers nearly half the continent and is only slightly smaller than the US, with an area of just over 8.5 million km2. It shares common boundaries with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
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