Best vacations in Brazil

The weather in Brazil can vary immensely from one part of the country to another, simply because the country is so large and spans nearly half of the continent of South America.  There are many different climates represented in Brazil, and the weather in each region also depends on the time of year.  A little [...]

Brazil is host to more species of wildlife than any other country in the world.  This is due in part to the immense area that Brazil covers.  There are five different sub-climate regions in Brazil.
The Amazon Rain Forest might be the best known of the geographical regions in Brazil that are home to a vast [...]

It is difficult to say that the weather in Brazil is a certain way; the country is enormous in terms of land mass.  It is actually the fifth largest country on the planet in terms of its size and therefore the weather is not the same everywhere in Brazil.  There are actually five different climatic [...]

Commonly referred to as the “lungs of the world”, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world.  Sixty percent of the Amazon Rainforest is found in Brazil.  It is estimated that 20 percent of the world’s oxygen is produced by this area alone.  It gives you an idea of just how important it is [...]

Brazil is a vast and fascinating country, which occupies about half of the continent of South America.  It borders the Atlantic Ocean and has an area of over eight and a half million square kilometers.  The highest point in Brazil, Pico da Neblina, reaches ninety-eight hundred feet into the air.  Brazil is also bordered by [...]

Brazil is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, due to its diverse climates and geographic regions.  However, from early colonial times, conservation of the environment has been an important and severe issue.  The Portuguese settlers who came to Brazil in the early sixteenth century heavily harvested the Brazilwood tree that was used [...]

Brazil spans an extremely vast amount of land, and so also encompasses many different ecoregions and several different kinds of biomes.  This wide variety of habitats in Brazil, including the jungles of the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Forest, the tropical savanna of the Cerrado, the xeric shrub land of the Caatinga, and the wetland [...]

Brazil’s climate varies considerably around the country because it spans such a wide area.  While the North is mostly tropical due to the equator traversing the mouth of the Amazon, below the Tropic of Capricorn, the climate is much more temperate.  In all, there are six climatic regions in Brazil, tropical, semiarid, equatorial, highland tropical, [...]