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The Doce River Basin (Portuguese: Bacia do rio Doce) is located in the southeastern region of Brazil. According to the Doce River Basin Committee (CBH-Doce), it belongs to the Southeast Atlantic hydrographic region, has a drainage area of 86,175 square kilometers and covers all or part of 229 municipalities. 86% of the basin's area belongs to the state of Minas Gerais, in the Doce River Valley ...
The Doce River (Portuguese: Rio Doce [ˈʁi.u ˈdos(i)], "Sweet River") is a river in southeast Brazil with a length of 853 kilometres (530 mi). The river basin is economically important. In 2015, the collapse of a dam released highly contaminated water from mining into the river, causing an ecological disaster
After a long campaign, the Rio Doce State Park was created by state decree-law 1.119 of 14 July 1944, the first state-level conservation unit in Minas Gerais. [2] During the first years the park was not monitored and access was uncontrolled, so the fauna suffered considerably from unrestricted hunting and fishing.
The Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA, pronounced as Refesa) (lit. ' Federal Railroad Network, S.A. ') was the State-owned national railway company of Brazil created from Brazilian Federal Law #3.115 on March 16, 1957, after several railroads were nationalized by the Brazilian government.
The largest pole in Brazil is in Rio Grande do Sul, but São Paulo has important shoe centers, such as the one in the city of Franca, specialized in men's footwear, in the city of Jaú, specialized in women's footwear and in the city of Birigui, specialized in footwear. children. Jaú, Franca and Birigui represent 92% of footwear production in ...
Vale do Rio Doce (English: Doce River valley) is one of the twelve mesoregions of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is composed of 102 municipalities, ...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may seek over $1 billion from Johnson & Johnson as reimbursement for federal health agencies' payments of medical costs for patients who allege that ...
Running to the east, after a journey of 287 km, will pour its waters into the Rio Doce. The bandeirantes used the river as a transportation route during the Brazil Gold Rush. Today it is used for fishing and gold panning, as well as leisure and tourism.