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Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. The capital is Brasília, and the most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigra...
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  • 1. Iguazu Falls Foz Do Iguacu
    Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. Together, they make up the largest waterfall system in the world. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River rises near the heart of the city of Curitiba. For most of its course, the river flows through Brazil; however, most of the falls are on the Argentine side. Below its confluence with the San Antonio River, the Iguazu River forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil. The name Iguazú comes from the Guarani or Tupi words y [ɨ], meaning water, and ûasú [waˈsu], meaning big. Legend has it that a deity planned to marry a beautiful woman named Naipí, who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a c...
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  • 2. Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam Foz Do Iguacu
    The Itaipu Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The construction of the dam was first contested by Argentina, but the negotiations and resolution of the dispute ended up setting the basis for Argentine–Brazilian integration later on.The name Itaipu was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guarani language, Itaipu means the sounding stone. The Itaipu Dam's hydroelectric power plant produced the most energy of any in the world as of 2016, setting a new world record of 103,098,366 megawatt hours , and surpassed the Three Gorges Dam plant in energy production in 2015 and 2016. Completed in 1984, it is a binational undertaking run by Brazil and Paraguay at the border between the two countries, 15 km no...
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  • 3. Itupararanga Dam Ibiuna
    The Itupararanga Dam is a dam, located on the Sorocaba River in the Sorocaba region of São Paulo state. It was built by Light S.A. from 1913 to 1914. The plant started its operation on 25 March 1914. It forms a lake with more than 40 kilometres and an area of 936 square kilometers with the main channel of 26 kilometres and 192 kilometres from shore. The estimated volume is 286 million cubic metres . The plant, with an installed capacity of 55 MW and average annual production of 150 gigawatt-hours , is used only by the industrial Votorantim Group, as Votorantim Cement Factory in St. Helena and the Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio - CBA, in Alumínio. The dam is 415 metres in length and has a height of 38 metres . It was built over the Sorocaba River canyon in the São Francisco Ridge. The...
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