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The Federal District is a departing point for the practice of free flying sports, a sport that may be practiced with hang gliding or paragliding wings. Practitioners of such sports say that because of the district's dry weather it offers strong thermal winds and great "cloud-streets" – which is also the name for a manoeuvre quite appreciated ...
The Federal District was first divided into administrative regions by a 1964 federal law. [3] Prior to this, the regions were not officially defined, but the seven oldest seats of government (Gama, Taguatinga, Brazlândia, Sobradinho, Planaltina, Paranoá, and Núcleo Bandeirante) already existed and were often called satellite cities (Portuguese: cidades satélites) to the capital Brasília ...
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Núcleo Bandeirante is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. It is located to the west of Paranoá Lake, being bordered by Arniqueira, Park Way, and Guará to the north, Candangolândia to the east, and Park Way and Riacho Fundo to the south. Núcleo Bandeirante was founded on December 19, 1956, receiving the status of ...
The National Congress (Portuguese: Congresso Nacional) is the legislative body of Brazil's federal government.Unlike the state legislative assemblies and municipal chambers, the Congress is bicameral, composed of the Federal Senate (the upper house) and the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house).
National district or National District may refer to: National District (VHSL), conference of the Virginia High School League (athletics) Distrito Nacional, special territorial jurisdiction of the Dominican Republic around its capital; National districts of the Soviet Union; National districts of the Russian Federation
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 203 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.
With the transfer of the capital to the recently created city of Brasília, the new Federal District was created in the Brazilian Highlands in 1960. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From 1960 to 1975 the same territory existed as the State of Guanabara , [ 5 ] which in turn was incorporated into the municipality of Rio de Janeiro .