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  2. Northeast Region, Brazil - Wikipedia

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    And because this time of year also coincides with the corn harvest many regional dishes containing corn, such as canjica, pamonha, and milho verde, have become part of the cultural tradition. The Bumba-Meu-Boi festival is also popular, especially in the state of Maranhão. During the Bumba-Meu-Bói festival in the city of São Luis do Maranhão ...

  3. Maracatu - Wikipedia

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    Cross-gendered maracatu cearense blackface queen. Pre-Carnival show in Caucaia, Ceará, February 2009.. Maracatu cearense is Fortaleza's variant of maracatu nação.Brought to Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1936, maracatu cearense has since been cultivated as the city's most distinctive Carnival performance tradition, owing in part to its use of blackface makeup to enact Afro-Brazilian characters and ...

  4. Sertanejos (traditional people) - Wikipedia

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    The Sertanejos are people linked to livestock farming and agriculture in the Sertão sub-region of Northeast Region of Brazil and in the Agreste areas of Caatinga. [1] [2] The emergence of the Sertanejos dates back to the 16th century in Bahia with the vaqueiros, driven by the advancement of livestock farming towards the interior.

  5. Culture of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Brazil has been shaped by ... Cordel literature is a literary genre very popular in the Northeast of Brazil; ... Cinema has a long tradition in Brazil, ...

  6. Brazilian cuisine - Wikipedia

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    The Northeastern Brazilian cuisine is heavily influenced by African cuisine from the coastal areas of Pernambuco to Bahia, as well as the eating habits of indigenous populations that lived in the region. The vatapá is a Brazilian dish made from bread, shrimp, coconut milk, finely ground peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.

  7. Nordeste (socio-geographic division) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Socio-Geographic Region of the Northeast. The socio-geographic division of Nordeste (Portuguese pronunciation: [nɔʁˈdɛstʃi], Northeast) is the oldest populated by Europeans (also with the oldest fossils that suggests human presence in Brazil) and currently the second most populous area of Brazil (42,822,100 in 1990).

  8. Traditional peoples in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, the Federal Government of Brazil formally recognized the existence of so-called traditional populations (Presidential Decree 6040 of February 7), [1] expanding the recognition partially made in the 1988 Constitution (only indigenous and quilombola) to cover the following communities: caboclo; caiçara; extractive; jangadeiro; fisherman; riverside; tapper; in addition to indigenous and ...

  9. Brazil socio-geographic division - Wikipedia

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    Northern Brazil, largely covered by the Amazon rainforest, is the Brazilian region with the largest Amerindian influences, both in culture and ethnicity. Inhabited by diverse indigenous tribes, this part of Brazil was reached by Portuguese and Spanish colonists in the 17th century, but it started to be populated by non-Indians only in the late ...