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7 full (and free!) tourist guides on Brazil available online

Publishing house Empresa das Artes, with an extense travel-related catalogue, is enabling free online access to the full contents of several of its guides. To read the guides you need to access the tool provided by Book Stand Panrotas.
The available guides are:
Amazonas
Bahia
Goiás
Mato Grosso
Pará
Paraná
Santa Catarina
To open each guide, click on CLIQUE para ler esta publicação. A [...]

how to get to Belém do Pará

Next year’s edition of the World Social Forum will take place in the city of Belém, capital of the state of Pará, in the north region of Brazil. This blog has an entry with information on the city (Destination: Belém). I have put together this new entry with information on how to get to Belém.
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map of Belém

As well as the destination card on Belém, (Destination: Belém), our contributor Daniel has prepared an anotated map with the main points of interest on the capital of Pará.
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As usual, you can check the map out here or open it on full screen mode at GoogleMaps.
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Destination: Belém

[from our special guest Daniel]

Belém do Pará is the capital of the state of Pará, in the north of Brazil, near the mouth of the mighty Amazon. It is known as the “metropolis of the Amazon” and it has accumulated a rich history since its foundation 400 years ago. During the rubber fever it became [...]

Destination: Ilha do Marajó

[from our special guest Daniel]

The island of Marajó, in the state of Pará, north of Brazil, is the largest island to be completely surrounded by freshwater in the world. It is larger than Switzerland. The main touristic points of the island are found near the towns of Salvaterra and Soure, on the east of the [...]