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Dance
Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern state of Bahia, from which it derived.
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Cultural Facts
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil.
The Brazilian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup tournament a record five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002 and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every World Cup competition ever held.
Brazilian cuisine has European, African and American influences.It varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's mix of native and immigrant populations, and its continental size as well.
Ingredients first used by native peoples in Brazil include cassava, guaraná, açaí, cumaru, cashew and tucupi.
Tourism
Tourism in Brazil is a growing sector and key to the economy of several regions of the country. The country had 5.17 million visitors in 2012, ranking in terms of the international tourist arrivals as the second main destination in South America, after Argentina, and third in Latin America after Mexico and Argentina.
Carnival
Carnival of Brazil is an annual Brazilian festival held between the Friday afternoon (51 days before Easter) and Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.
Language
Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, and is spoken by more than 99% of the population
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Brazil
Brazil has 27 official states, Brasília being one of them and the Capital of the country
Brazil's large territory comprises different ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, recognized as having the greatest biological diversity in the world, sustaining the greatest biodiversity. The rich wildlife of Brazil reflects the variety of natural habitats.
Clothes
Brazilians love clothing that burst with lovely bright colors and attires that display attractive cuts and patterns. The fashion usually places a lot of emphasis on appropriate accessories as well.
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Geography
Brazil has a dense and complex system of rivers, one of the world's most extensive, with eight major drainage basins, all of which drain into the Atlantic. Major rivers include the Amazon (the world's second-longest river and the largest in terms of volume of water), the Paraná and its major tributary the Iguaçu.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km.
Curiosity
Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island, is the only home of the critically endangered, venomous Bothrops insularis (golden lancehead pit viper), which has a diet of birds. Snake Island is closed to the public in order to protect this snake population.
Brazil shares a border with every South American country except Ecuador and Chile. It also has a number of oceanic archipelagos, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz.