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The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Portuguese: Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária, abbreviated MAPA) is a federal department in Brazil.The jurisdiction of this ministry is to formulate and implement policies for agribusiness development, integrating the aspects of market, technological, organizational and environmental care for the consumers of the country and abroad, promoting ...
The secretariat traces its roots to 1917, when it was established as the Secretaría de Agricultura y Fomento (Secretariat of Agriculture and Development). The name changed in 1946 to Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería (Secretariat of Agriculture and Ranching), in 1976 to Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos (Secretariat of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources), and again in ...
As of 2024, the Brazilian economy is the third largest in the Americas in nominal terms, and second largest in purchasing power parity. It is an upper-middle income developing mixed economy . [ 31 ] In 2024, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil had the 10th largest nominal gross domestic product in the world, but the 7th ...
Ponta Grossa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpõtɐ ˈɡɾɔsɐ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil.The estimated population is 355,336 according to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and it is the 4th most populous city in Paraná (76th in Brazil).
Andalusia (UK: / ˌ æ n d ə ˈ l uː s i ə,-z i ə / AN-də-LOO-see-ə, -zee-ə, US: /-ʒ (i) ə,-ʃ (i) ə /-zh(ee-)ə, -sh(ee-)ə; [6] [7] [8] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ, locally also) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe.
The record high temperature was 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) on 17 October 2014 [70] and the lowest −3.2 °C (26.2 °F) on 25 June 1918. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] The Tropic of Capricorn , at about 23°27' S, passes through north of São Paulo and roughly marks the boundary between the tropical and temperate areas of South America.
The Vasco da Gama Bridge, opened on 29 March 1998 is, at 17.2 km (10.7 mi), the longest bridge in Europe. [ 181 ] The foundations for a third bridge across the Tagus have already been laid, but the overall project has been postponed due to economic crisis that affected Portugal, and other bureaucratic and political reasons.
Hurricane Leslie (known as Storm Leslie [1] or Cyclone Leslie [2] while extratropical) was the strongest cyclone of tropical origin to strike the Iberian Peninsula since 1842.A large, long-lived, and very erratic tropical cyclone, Leslie was the twelfth named storm and sixth hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season. [3]