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On 19 March 2008, the Peruvian Congress declared this project to be of national interest. After Peruvian President Ollanta Humala visited China for APEC, and following on from a previous agreement with Brazil, a memorandum was approved in China to begin studies for a railway project to link the two oceans and integrate the markets of Brazil, Peru and China.
Cruzeiro do Sul is an old Samba school in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul Cruzeiro do Sul (film) , a 1966 film by Fernando Lopes Cruzeiro do Sul , a 1922 picture by Jorge Colaço , representing a Portuguese ship navigating by the stars in the Southern Cross, exhibited in Pavilhão Carlos Lopes in Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal.)
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul (Latin: Dioecesis Crucis Australis) is a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Velho, Acre (state), westernmost Amazonian Brazil. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Catedral Nossa Senhora da Gloria, in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre.
The National Order of the Southern Cross (Portuguese: Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul) is a Brazilian order of chivalry founded by Emperor Pedro I on 1 December 1822. The order aimed to commemorate the independence of Brazil (7 September 1822) and the coronation of Pedro I (1 December 1822). [5]
Cruzeiro do Sul receives 2,167.4 millimetres (85.33 in) on average annually and has a wet season that generally falls between October and April and a drier season from June to September. March, receiving 292.6 millimetres (11.52 in) of rainfall on average, is the wettest month, while July is the driest month, receiving only 59.1 millimetres (2. ...
29 October 2009: a Brazilian Air Force Cessna 208 Caravan registration FAB-2725 en route from Cruzeiro do Sul to Tabatinga made an emergency landing on a river due engine failure. Of the 11 occupants, 1 passenger and 1 crew member died. [7]
Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul was the second oldest airline of Brazil, tracing its origins to 1927, when it was founded as Syndicato Condor, a subsidiary of Deutsche Luft Hansa. Syndicato Condor retained rights and interests of a former German trade company, Condor Syndikat , which previously operated passenger and mail services in Brazil.
Cruzeiro do Sul (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾuˈzejɾu du ˈsuw], Southern Cross) is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraná. It has an area of 259.103 square kilometres (100.040 sq mi). It has an area of 259.103 square kilometres (100.040 sq mi).