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Sightseeing in Brazil

Rio Grande

Rio Grande do Norte

Rio Grande do Norte is the land of the sun. There are beaches with white sand, dunes, coconut plantations and too much peace. A place to rest and admire the beauty of the place.

Over there, the summer lasts the whole year and a constant breeze soothes the hot weather. On a coastline with an extension of 339 km, Rio Grande do Norte has beaches with calm waters and natural pools formed by reefs. It also has beaches with good waves for surfing, and almost desert beaches with dunes and coconut plantations.

Besides sun and nature, Rio Grande do Norte has hospitable people that always show to the visitors the best things of the State. You need to know this paradise of blue sea and too much sun, folklore, craftworks, fruits and delicious typical dishes.

Rio Grande do Sul

Full of natural attractions, Rio Grande do Sul is a Brazilian State that can be visited from January to December, because of its geography and because it has the four seasons well-defined, propitiating options to the different tourist modalities.

According to this, RS nowadays offers structure and different tourism options like ecological, rural, nautical, sporting, fishing, health, cultural, religious, and others.

From its capital, Porto Alegre, to the interior of the State, going through the Região da Serra (Mound's Region), Litoral Norte (North Coastline), Costa Doce (Doce Coast; also known as Mar de Dentro), Litoral Sul (South Coastline), Região das Missões (Missions' Region); Zona dos Vales (Valleys' Zone), Região Central (Central Region), known as Coração do Rio Grande (Rio Grande's Heart), Pampa and Região de Hidrominerais (Hydro mineral Stations Region), the nature in Rio Grande do Sul goes up and to the sides, generous and fascinating. Its inhabitants observe the natural wealthy of this earth carefully and tenderly. They are the result of different ethnical groups, with its refined feelings by the History, its sensibility and natural sense of hospitality.

RS is located in a strategical position related to Mercosul's countries, which is a block formed by Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. The main road shafts that bind those countries are on the State. Rio Grande's harbor facilitates the outflow of Brazilian products to neighborhood countries.

The State has the larger Brazilian boundaries with the countries on the Prata region: 1.003 km with the Uruguay, to the South, and 724 km with Argentina, to the West. To the North, Rio Grande do Sul boundaries with the Santa Catarina's State, along the 958 km; to the East, with the Atlantic Ocean, in an extension of 622 km.