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Información práctica sobre Fortaleza en mi blog: Destinos: Fortaleza
Practical information on Fortaleza from my blog: Destination: Fortaleza
Retro style, how I like it! I found a place, turned on the camera and did this candid shot. This red haired girl is so beautiful.
Palácio da Liberdade - Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
"A life with dignity = not just some of the environment in balance but all of it"
A Rocha Brasil is one of Tearfund's partner organisations in Brazil.
Photo: Tearfund
The Brazilica Festival is the largest celebration of Brazilian culture in the United Kingdom that has been held annually in Liverpool, England since July 2008. It is produced by the Liverpool Carnival Company, an organisation that has operated as a registered charity since 2007. The festival began during Liverpool's reign as European Capital of Culture in 2008 when a Rio-style Carnival Parade swept through the streets of the city. In its current format, the festival consists of a week-long celebration of Brazilian culture including music, art, food, film and dance events that take place at indoor venues across the city which build up to an outdoor city centre carnival street party that takes place in Williamson Square and samba carnival parade.
The Liverpool Samba School was set up by husband and wife creative team Roger and Maeve Morris in 1995. The school performed at the Rio Carnival in 2000 and wanted to bring a touch of the Carnival's magic to streets in their own city. In 2007, the creative team established the Liverpool Carnival Company with an aim of delivering a Carnival event the following year.
Brazilica Festival Liverpool
SUMMER 2013
100s of performers took part in this Rio-style carnival weaving its way through the city centre with glittering costumes, floats and irresistible samba.The beautiful, bejewelled samba dancers, Brazilian style drummers and spectacular floats started their journey through the city at 8pm at Abercrombie Square before leading down Mulberry Street, turning onto Oxford Street, past the Cathedral of Christ the King, then moving down Hope Street. From there, the carnival danced down Hardman Street, passing St Luke’s bombed out Church before making its way down Bold Street, stomping through Church Street and ending at the Main Stage Festival site at Williamson Square, in the heart of Liverpool city centre, where a number of acts took to the stage to perform until 11pm. A completely FREE fiesta for everyone to enjoy!
Liverpool city centre July 2012
In the last two years I've spent almost 6 months on assignments for various magazines in Brazil. I've partied through carnival in Rio and worked on stories in the favelas. I shot assignments in Sao Paulo and Amazon and went on several long treks around the jungles of Rio state and Ilha Grande. Hope to get back soon!
The Brazilica Festival is the largest celebration of Brazilian culture in the United Kingdom that has been held annually in Liverpool, England since July 2008. It is produced by the Liverpool Carnival Company, an organisation that has operated as a registered charity since 2007. The festival began during Liverpool's reign as European Capital of Culture in 2008 when a Rio-style Carnival Parade swept through the streets of the city. In its current format, the festival consists of a week-long celebration of Brazilian culture including music, art, food, film and dance events that take place at indoor venues across the city which build up to an outdoor city centre carnival street party that takes place in Williamson Square and samba carnival parade.
The Liverpool Samba School was set up by husband and wife creative team Roger and Maeve Morris in 1995. The school performed at the Rio Carnival in 2000 and wanted to bring a touch of the Carnival's magic to streets in their own city. In 2007, the creative team established the Liverpool Carnival Company with an aim of delivering a Carnival event the following year.
Brazilica Festival Liverpool
SUMMER 2013
Christ the Redeemer (O Cristo Redentor) - 130 ft tall and 635 tons.
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Women's Forum Brazil 2013.Making a Difference. June 17-18, Grand Hyatt São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, June 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL GUIMARAES
A worker splits open newly harvested cacao fruits to collect the cocoa beans. - - General: General. Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of cocoa, which has a high food value, containing as much as 20% proteins. The processing of cacao seeds, better known as cocoa beans, is complex. The fruit harvest is cured or fermented in a pulpy state for 3 to 9 days, during which, the heat kills the seeds and turns them brown. The enzymes activated by fermentation impart the substance that will give the beans their characteristic chocolate flavour when roasted. The beans are dried in the sun, cleaned and stoned in special machines, before they are roasted. They are then shelled in a crushing machine and ground into chocolate. During the grinding, the fat melts producing a sticky chocolate
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Parnaiba Headwaters National Park in Brazil protects one of the largest areas of cerrado in the country. This environment is usually described as savannah but is actually made up of a variety of different habitats from open grassland and marsh to dry woodland and thick bush. The word cerrado actually means closed in Spanish because in some places the bush is fairly impenetrable. What is curious about the cerrado is that the different habitats within it are in appearance very reminiscent of similar habitats in Africa but for one obvious difference, where are the large mammals?
The grasslands of Africa famously support large herds of grazers; the dry woodlands support a similar variety of animals but in much smaller numbers. Therefore if one were travelling through an equivalent African landscape to that of Parnaiba one would expect to see at the very least small numbers of a variety of large herbivores and their predators. Yet in Parnaiba the only large herbivores you see at all are domestic cattle like those in this photo, this park was only created very recently from what was ranch land and the locals still graze their cattle in the park.
It seems obvious when you look at the cerrado that there should be a variety of large mammals here, the equivalent of Africa’s elephants, zebras, antelopes and other large herbivores, so why aren’t there? The answer is that there were once, until perhaps as recently as 10,000 years ago habitats like this in South America did support a variety of large herbivores. Though not in huge numbers the grasslands here are very poor quality compared to those in Africa and could never have supported huge herds of large grazers. But undoubtedly there would have been small herds of grazers such as wild horses and camelids related to guanacos/llamas. Within the woodlands elephant like mastodons, giant ground sloths and various other browsers, like Xenorhinotheriums which belong to an extinct and uniquely South American family of animals known as lipoterns. These curious animals had three toes rather than the two toes that ungulates have and a short trunk like nose perhaps similar to that of a saiga antelope.
Exactly what happened to these animals, why South America’s Pleistocen megafauna became extinct is still to be determined for certain. It is often suggested that they were wiped out by human hunters that when the first people arrived in South America they killed off all of the megafauna. However, no one is sure when the first people reached the continent or in fact even exactly where they came from. New evidence appears to contradict past theories and suggests that people and the megafauna may have overlapped for at least 3,000 years. The most likely explanation, would seem to be that severe climate change when the ice age came to an end, reduced the available habitat for these animals cutting their numbers and severely restricting their range. In the past they had been able to survive such changes, but that was before the arrival of human hunters. Climate change as it were put them on the ropes and then human hunters delivered the knockout blow.
The grazing of livestock in national parks, should generally be discouraged but arguably in this case. the cattle are doing little damage. The poor quality of the grazing ensures that they can only be kept in relatively small numbers and they are perhaps in part, fulfilling the ecological role played by some of the missing megafauna.
Roberto Cabot is a Brazilian artist based in Rio de Janeiro. He works with multiple media such as photography, drawing, painting, networked installations, and projections, among others.
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In the last two years I've spent almost 6 months on assignments for various magazines in Brazil. I've partied through carnival in Rio and worked on stories in the favelas. I shot assignments in Sao Paulo and Amazon and went on several long treks around the jungles of Rio state and Ilha Grande. Hope to get back soon!
Mergus octosetaceus
A pair with several recently-hatched ducklings. It's the rarest duck in South America. BirdLife International estimates the population to be 50-249 individuals, most of the them in Brazil. A small population was recently rediscovered in Argentina, and a few might persist in Paraguay. Canastra NP is probably the best place to find it, though I have been seeing them less often in recent years.
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Women's Forum Brazil 2013.Making a Difference. June 17-18, Grand Hyatt São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, June 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL GUIMARAES
My hands are tired and eternally crimped in the rod-grip position. My stomach and chest are riddled with small bruises in perfect proportion to the fly rod fighting butt. My luggage contains shredded fly lines, reels that received more of a workout than they ever dreamed of while sitting on the shelves, rods that were doubled over and contorted in shapes they were not designed to ever see, and a dozen flies that are torn and beaten up by razor sharp teeth. These are the after effects of a trip to Agua Boa Amazon Lodge, deep within the Amazon jungle.
The Rio Agua Boa is, by Amazonian standards, a small feeder river that empties into the much larger Rio Branco, which in turn joins the River Negro. The Rio Negro joins the Rio Solimoes at Manaus to form The Amazon proper.
Brazilian Armed Forces Conduct Large Operation Against Rio Favela Gangs
Brazilian soldiers during a 'Mega Operation' conducted by the Brazilian Armed Forces along with police against gang members in seven of Rio's most violent 'favela' communities on August 21, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The children were waiting for adults to be searched nearby as many 'favela' residents were searched both entering and departing the communities during the operation. Brazil has deployed 8,500 members of the armed forces to Rio in an attempt to increase security amidst a spike in violence and crime. In the first six months of 2017 there were 3,457 homicides in Rio state, the highest level of violence seen there since 2009.
Photos: Mario Tama
The Brazilica Festival is the largest celebration of Brazilian culture in the United Kingdom that has been held annually in Liverpool, England since July 2008. It is produced by the Liverpool Carnival Company, an organisation that has operated as a registered charity since 2007. The festival began during Liverpool's reign as European Capital of Culture in 2008 when a Rio-style Carnival Parade swept through the streets of the city. In its current format, the festival consists of a week-long celebration of Brazilian culture including music, art, food, film and dance events that take place at indoor venues across the city which build up to an outdoor city centre carnival street party that takes place in Williamson Square and samba carnival parade.
The Liverpool Samba School was set up by husband and wife creative team Roger and Maeve Morris in 1995. The school performed at the Rio Carnival in 2000 and wanted to bring a touch of the Carnival's magic to streets in their own city. In 2007, the creative team established the Liverpool Carnival Company with an aim of delivering a Carnival event the following year.
Brazilica Festival Liverpool
SUMMER 2013
São Paulo is a monster. Enormous, intimidating and, at first glance at least, no great beauty. It's a difficult city for the traveler to master and one that may not seem worth the sweat. Even the most partisan paulistano – resident of São Paulo city – will rail about the smog, the traffic, the crumbling sidewalks and the gaping divide between poor and rich.
But in the same breath they’ll tell you they’d never live anywhere else. Let them guide you to their favorite haunts and the reason for this will begin to unfold. Maybe they will introduce you to the city’s innumerable art-house cinemas and experimental theaters. If they’re gourmands, you’ll focus on the smart bistros and gourmet restaurants that make the city a world-renowned foodie haven. If they’re scenesters, double up on espresso before embarking on a tour of raucous underground bars and the 24/7 clubbing scene. Whatever pleasures you might covet, Sampa – as the city is known – probably has them in spades.