Fun Facts About Brazil

Some nice curiosities about the next World Cup country ;)

- Some years snows in Brazil and it's commom to be about 0ºCelsius on Winter in South.

Snow on a mountain in Rio de janeiro (Yes! Rio de Janeiro :P)

People playing in snow, in Santa Catarina, Brazil

- Although Brazil is the biggest winner of the FIFA World Cup (5 titles), when the country hosted a World Cup in 1950, Uruguay was the champion.

- Brazil has the fastest growing fleet of helicopters in the world. The helicopter traffic in Sao Paulo is the third largest in the world.

- The Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world. More than 235 million people speak the language and 201 milion are in Brazil.

- In the Amazon river, 1,500 species of fish have been discovered, but it is estimated at least double living there. This is more than six times every fish species found in the rivers of Europe. 

- The water lily victoria amazonica, a symbol of the Amazon, is the largest water flower in the world, can measure 2.5 meters in diameter.

- Brazil has the largest tropical florest of the world. But there isn't any wild animal on cities (I know some foreigners believe in these crazy things hehe). 

- Brazil received a millions of European, Arabs and Asian immigrants until the II World War and they had a lot of influency at Brazilian habits. Now the immigration policy is more limited and isn't so easy to get a visa to work here.

Traditional German festival in South of Brazil

- In Brazil you can find food from a lot of countries in any big city. The most popular Brazilian food is "rice with beans" + some kind of meat (beef, chiken, fish). This is the "every day food". However I think the majority of Brazilians think it's from here, but rice is from Asia and probaly the Portugueses passed the habit of to eat beans.

Things you need to know about BRASIL -- Part 1

A little guide for who wants to travel to the next World Cup country ;)

1- Brazilians don't speak or spoke Spanish ever!!! Brazilians always spoke and speak Portuguese, and they hate when anyone thinks they speak Spanish. ;)

2- Brazil in Portuguese is Brasil with "s", so never correct a Brazilian or anyone then they write "Brasil" or will feel embarrassed. ;)

3- Brazil is suuuuper diferent of others South American countries. We don't have Spanish culture or South American culture. It's not prejudice, but the history and habits of here are very diferent.

4- The capital of Brazil isn't Rio de Janeiro (ok, they understand this mistake, calm) or Buenos Aires (nonsense, impossible understand the last). The capital of Brazil is Brasília and there isn't any beach there hehe.

5- Brazilian hope you know the first and the fourth item above, because they study geography at school and know these things of the other countries. And is not polite a person doesn't anything about a country that he or she is visiting, right? Brazilians are really tired of people who don't know anything about their country.

6- All Brazilian women use short clothes, right? Wrong again, the TV deceived you. Some (I said "some", no all) girls from favelas/shantytown use clothes very short, but, they are minority. Actually the European girls use clothes shortest than the Brazilians. 

7- Brazilians don't use swimwear on street. Swimwear is only for beaches or swimming pool. Foreigners usually use swimwear on streets here, and the Brazilians think it funny.

8- Brazilians smile a lot, and laugh a lot too. Please, don't think they are laughing at you. A smile is a way of being nice, kind, pleasing, polite. A serious face here isn't so polite (but the smile ends if you say that they speak Spanish :P)

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I'm sorry my English, but is better you know these important things 4 you have a nice trip.