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The Pantanal (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐ̃taˈnaw]) is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul , but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay .
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The Pantanal — the world's largest tropical wetland area, and an ecoregion of the Flooded grasslands and savannas biome in South America. It is located primarily within Mato Grosso do Sul state of Brazil , and extends into Mato Grosso state, Bolivia , and Paraguay .
Corumbá (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital.It has a population of approximately 112,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly on agriculture, animal husbandry, mineral extraction, and tourism, being the gateway to the biggest wetlands of the world, the Pantanal.
Mato Grosso (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmatu ˈɡɾosu] ⓘ – lit. ' Thick Bush ') is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. [4] The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Ladário (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The municipality of Ladário is surrounded by the municipality of Corumbá in all directions. Together, Corumbá and Ladário total 123,320 inhabitants.
Fuerte Olimpo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfweɾte oˈlimpo]) is a city in Paraguay.It is the capital of the department of Alto Paraguay.Straddling the river Paraguay which forms the border with Brazil, Fuerte Olimpo is Paraguay's northernmost departmental capital, located over 830 km (515 mi) north of the capital Asunción.
The consonant inventory of Portuguese is fairly conservative. [citation needed] The medieval Galician-Portuguese system of seven sibilants (/ts dz/, /ʃ ʒ/, /tʃ/, and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺/) is still distinguished in spelling (intervocalic c/ç z, x g/j, ch, ss -s-respectively), but is reduced to the four fricatives /s z ʃ ʒ/ by the merger of /tʃ/ into /ʃ/ and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺ ...