In the individual regions there are hardly any differences in prices between urban and rural areas. But there is a very large north-south divide (south more expensive). Only the regions around the cities of Recife, Fortaleza and Salvador in the…
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There is another way to regionalize Brazil, in a way that better captures the socioeconomic situation and the relationships between society and the natural space. It deals with the geoeconomic division of the country into three large regional complexes: the…
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Juçara, buriti, bacaba, carnaúba, babaçu… Maranhão is known as “land of palm trees”, the name given to it by Fróis de Abreu, in a 1931 book, but as early as 1614 Claude d’Abbeville boasted: “It is a true palm garden….
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