You know Pernambuco - Brazil?

Question

Hi. What such to know a place interesting? A place with old building and large houses, waterfalls, mountains and landscapes to take off the breath imagine. Now they imagine if this place was in the way it pernambucano Hinterland! This place is not lie exists exactly, it is called “Oasis of the Hinterland”. They know Triumph - Brazil!

THEY VISIT THE PAGE:

http://www.geocities.com/fabio_ferreira_souza/oasis.html

What they had found of the place?

Answer 1

I know where it it but never been there. It looks cool!

Answer 2

Pernambuco, Nord Este do Brasil!!!

Recife, Olinda. The home country of my wife. My son was born there and it is truly a spectacular place on the earth.

The beaches, the nature, the people, the food, the music, the feeling for life, Cachaca (hehehehe) and the carnaval.

E  vida est bonito!!!

Viva Brasil!!! Viva Pernambuco!!

Answer 3

Pernambuco (pron. IPA: /peɾ.nɐ̃.'bu.ku/ [1]) is a state of Brazil, located in the Brazilian Northeast. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean.

Geography

Pernambuco has a territory covered mostly by the dry thorny scrub vegetation called caatinga. The Rio São Francisco is the main water source for this area. The coastal area is fertile, and was formerly covered by the Mata Atlântica. It is now place to extensive sugar cane plantations.

The climate is more bland in the countryside of the state because of the Borborema plateau ("Planalto da Borborema", popularly known as "Serra das Russas"). Some towns are located more than 1000 meters above sea level, and the temperatures there can reach about 10°C during the winter.

The island of Fernando de Noronha in the Atlantic Ocean, 535 km Northeast of Recife, has been part of Pernambuco since 1988.

History

Pernambuco was first colonized by Portuguese settlers.

In 1534 King John III of Portugal created the Hereditary Captaincies. Pernambuco, one of these captaincies, was granted to Duarte Coelho. The hereditary lord of a captaincy was known as Capitão-Mor.

Duarte Coelho had arrived at Pernambuco, then known as Nova Lusitânia (New Lusitania), in 1535 and established his government in the area on which Olinda was to be founded.

After bloodshed battles against the Caetê Indians, which had an alliance with the French, Duarte Coelho founded Olinda at the site of the Marin Indian village. This victory made possible to estabilize the captaincy and to start Portuguese rule.

The village (vilas) of Olinda (first capital) and Igarassu were founded 1537.

Pernambuco was one of the two only prosperous captaincies (the other was São Vincente), mainly due to the plantation of sugar cane and cotton. With the support of Dutch East India Company, the sugar mills (engenho) were constructed and the sugar industry had greatly developed. In 1612, Pernambuco produced 14,000 tons of sugar; by 1640s, more than 24,000 tons of sugar were exported to Amsterdam.

In 1630, Pernambuco, as well as many Portuguese possessions in Brazil, was occupied by the Dutch. Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, count of Nassau, was appointed as ruler of the Nieuw Holland (Dutch colonization enterprise in Brazil).

Nassau's government built Maritania or Mauristaad (Recife) on delta islands, which is somewhat similar to Holland's topography. This moved the political focus from Olinda to Recife. The Nassau's Dutch administration was noted for advancements in urbanism, culture, and science. The Dutch legacy is still recognizable in Pernambuco's people, accent, and architecture.

Portugal reconquered Recife in 1654 and Olinda regained its status of political center. However, Recife remained the commercial /port city.

In 1710 the Mascate War took place in Pernambuco. This conflict set the mascates (traveling salesman) from Recife against the establishment hosted in Olinda and led by the Senhores de Engenho (owners of the sugar mills, literally: sugar mill lords).