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There are a number of hypotheses about the origin of the word Sertão, most of which place its appearance during the colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese.The most widespread of these holds that, when they left the Brazilian coast and moved inland, the Lusitanian settlers noticed a big difference in the climate of this semi-arid region and referred to it as "desertão" (big desert), due to ...
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A vereda in the Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, a national park created in tribute to the book. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Portuguese: Grande Sertão: Veredas, "Great Backlands: Paths"; also translated as The Great Backlands and Their Paths) is a novel published in 1956 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa.
Os Sertões (Portuguese: [us seʁˈtõjʃ], "the backlands"; 1902), translated as Rebellion in the Backlands, is a book written by the Brazilian author Euclides da Cunha. ...
The Hidden Star of the Sertão (in Portuguese, A Estrela Oculta do Sertão) is a 2005 Brazilian documentary directed by photographer Elaine Eiger and the journalist Luize Valente.
Bacurau (Portuguese for 'nightjar'; [bɐkuˈɾaw]) is a 2019 Weird Western film [3] written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. [4] It stars Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, and Karine Teles.
The park is in the Cerrado biome. It covers an area of 230,853 hectares (570,450 acres) and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.It was created by decree nº 97.658 of 12 April 1989, revised on 21 May 2004. [1]
Criança Morta ("Dead Child"), 1944, by Cândido Portinari [1]. The Grande Seca (English: Great Drought), or the Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, was the largest and most devastating drought in Brazilian history. [2]