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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 .
On April 21, 1960, at the inauguration of the city, TV Nacional entered on air on an experimental basis, together with TV Brasília and TV Alvorada, on VHF channel 3. [2] [3] TV Nacional was the first state-owned broadcaster in Brazil. Initially it had a diverse program offer, ranging from its own telenovelas to political coverage of the new ...
The Arquivo Nacional (in English: The Brazilian National Archives) is an institution of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security responsible for the management and preservation of documents pertaining to the federal public administration and located in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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 ...
In 1549, the Portuguese Crown appointed Tomé de Sousa as the first governor-general of the vast Portuguese dominion in South America, known as the State of Brazil (Estado do Brasil). In 1621, the northern part of the dominion was detached, becoming a separate entity known as the State of Maranhão .
There are 5569 municipalities in Brazil, comprising almost the entirety of the country's territory. The only exceptions are the Federal District (not divided into municipalities, but into 35 administrative regions, without any political autonomy) and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha , which consists in a state district of Pernambuco.
A list of films produced in Brazil ordered by year and split onto separate pages by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia see Category:Brazilian films 1897–1919
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