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Faliraki is a popular tourist destination with a 5 km stretch of sand and 12 FEE Blue Flags. At the southern end of Faliraki Beach there is an official naturist beach called Mandomata Beach, which has a small tavern as well as a couple of public toilets. Faliraki has rediscovered itself as a cosmopolitan, vibrant centre of tourism catering to ...
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.
The Filipino community in Brazil did not receive large Filipino immigrants compared to the United States and Canada. In 2008, it was estimated that there were just over 300 Filipinos residing in Brazil, including Catholic missionaries and migrant workers in the telecommunications, oil and domestic services sectors.
The 163 Chinese workers found by Brazil's labor ministry in what it described as "slavery-like conditions" at a factory construction site owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD have been ...
Today, the Wariʼ are peaceful, but before pacification they warred with neighboring tribes. Their most notable victories occurred over the Karipuna , a Tupi ethnicity, and the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau . With contact with the Brazilian government in the 20th century, the focus of their warfare shifted and they lost contact with the old wijam (enemy).
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people, including a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet, suspected of involvement in an alleged plan to kill then ...
Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians (Portuguese: Brasileiros nativos) are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil.
In 2010, the city of Fortaleza was the 5th most populous city proper in Brazil, after São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and Brasília. Currently, Fortaleza is the 4th largest city in Brazil in terms of population. [30] In 2010, the city had 433,942 opposite-sex couples and 1,559 same-sex couples. The population of Fortaleza was 53.2% female ...