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128 relations: Acre, Aleijadinho, Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, Amazon basin, Amazon Theatre, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Anavilhanas National Park, Argentina, Atlantic Forest, Atlantic Ocean, Bahia, Bandeirantes, Brasília, Brazil, Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area, Centres of Plant Diversity, Cerrado, Chandigarh, Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Christ the Redeemer (statue), Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Congonhas, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Corcovado, Cultural heritage, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Emas National Park, Espírito Santo, Ex nihilo, Federal District (Brazil), Fernando de Noronha, Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil), Fortaleza de Santa Cruz da Barra, Fortaleza de Santa Cruz de Anhatomirim, Fortaleza de São João (Rio de Janeiro), Fortaleza de São José de Macapá, Forte de Santa Catarina, Forte de Santa Maria, Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra, Forte de São Diogo, Forte de São João Batista do Brum, Forte de São João da Bertioga, Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas, Forte dos Reis Magos, Forte Príncipe da Beira, France, Giant anteater, Giant otter, Global 200, Goiás, ..., Goiás, Goiás, Guanabara Bay, Guaraní people, Gustavo Capanema Palace, Hawksbill sea turtle, Hectare, Historic Center (Salvador), Igapó, Iguaçu National Park, Iguazu Falls, Iguazu River, Ingá Stone, Jaú National Park, Jesuit missions, Lake Pampulha, Lúcio Costa, Le Corbusier, Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, List of endemic bird areas of the world, List of World Heritage in Danger, Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Misiones Province, Modernism, Natural heritage, Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro, Nuestra Señora de Loreto, Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana, Olinda, Oscar Niemeyer, Ouro Preto, Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), Pampulha Modern Ensemble, Pantanal, Paranapiacaba, Paraná (state), Paraty, Paris, Pernambuco, Peruaçu River, Piauí, Pico da Neblina National Park, Quixadá Monoliths Natural Monument, Raso da Catarina Ecological Station, Reducción de Santa María la Mayor, Argentina, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Roberto Burle Marx, Rocas Atoll, Salvador, Bahia, San Ignacio Miní, São Cristóvão, São Francisco Square, São Luís, Maranhão, São Marcelo Fort, São Miguel das Missões, São Paulo (state), Sergipe, Serra da Bocaina National Park, Serra da Canastra National Park, Serra da Capivara National Park, Serra do Divisor National Park, Serra do Mar, Taim Ecological Station, Theatro da Paz, Tijuca Forest, UNESCO, Valongo Wharf, Várzea forest, Ver-o-peso, World Heritage Committee, World Heritage site. Expand index (78 more) »
Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.
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Aleijadinho
Aleijadinho (born Antônio Francisco Lisboa; 1730 or 1738 – November 18, 1814) was a Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil.
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Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve
Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve (Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Amanã) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
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Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
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Amazon Theatre
The Amazon Theatre is an opera house located in Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
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Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country.
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Anavilhanas National Park
Anavilhanas National Park (Parque Nacional de Anavilhanas) is a national park that encompasses a huge river archipelago in the Rio Negro in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Bahia
Bahia (locally) is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast.
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Bandeirantes
The Bandeirantes were 17th-century Portuguese settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters.
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Brasília
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area
Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental Cavernas do Peruaçu) is a protected area in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Centres of Plant Diversity
Centres of Plant Diversity (CPD) was established in 1998 as a joint classification initiative between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature intended to identify the areas in the world that are of the highest conservation value in terms of protecting the highest number of plant species.
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Cerrado
The Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais.
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Chandigarh
Chandigarh is a city and a union territory in India that serves as the capital of the two neighbouring states of Haryana and Punjab.
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Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park (Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros) is a national park of Brazil located in the state of Goias, on the top of an ancient plateau with an estimated age of 1.8 billion years.
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Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor, standard) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
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Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (Igreja de Sao Francisco de Assis, commonly known as the Igreja da Pampulha) is a church in Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.
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Congonhas
Congonhas (Congonhas do Campo) is a historical Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais.
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Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana is a bairro (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Corcovado
Corcovado, meaning "hunchback" in Portuguese, is a mountain in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and preserved for the benefit of future generations.
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Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Diamantina is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais.
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Emas National Park
The Emas National Park (Parque Nacional das Emas, literally meaning "Rhea National Park") is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.
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Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo (meaning "Holy Spirit") is a state in southeastern Brazil.
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Ex nihilo
Ex nihilo is a Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing".
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Federal District (Brazil)
The Federal District (Distrito Federal) is one of 27 federative units of Brazil.
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Fernando de Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, offshore from the Brazilian coast.
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Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil)
The Fort of Santa Cruz de Itamaracá, popularly known as Fort Orange, located on Itamaracá Island on the north coast of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil.
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Fortaleza de Santa Cruz da Barra
Fortaleza de Santa Cruz da Barra is a fort located in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
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Fortaleza de Santa Cruz de Anhatomirim
Fortaleza de Santa Cruz de Anhatomirim is a fort located on Anhatomirim Island in the municipality of Governador Celso Ramos, Santa Catarina in Brazil.
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Fortaleza de São João (Rio de Janeiro)
The Fortaleza de São João da Barra do Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese for: Fortress of Saint John of the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as the Fortaleza de São João or Forte (de) São João (Fort (of) Saint John), is a 16th-century star fort in the present-day Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, erected by Estácio de Sá to protect Guanabara Bay from French invasion.
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Fortaleza de São José de Macapá
Fortaleza de São José de Macapá is a fort located in Macapá, Amapá in Brazil.
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Forte de Santa Catarina
Forte de Santa Catarina is a fort located in Cabedelo, Paraíba in Brazil.
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Forte de Santa Maria
Forte de Santa Maria is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil.
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Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra
Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia Brazil.
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Forte de São Diogo
Forte de São Diogo is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia Brazil.
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Forte de São João Batista do Brum
Forte de São João Batista do Brum (often simply Forte do Brum) is a fort located in Recife, Pernambuco in Brazil.
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Forte de São João da Bertioga
Forte de São João da Bertioga is a fort located on Santo Amaro Island (municipality of Guarujá), São Paulo in Brazil.
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Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas
Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas is a fort located in Recife, Pernambuco in Brazil.
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Forte dos Reis Magos
The Forte dos Reis Magos or Fortaleza dos Reis Magos (Fortress of the Three Wise Men), is a fortress located in the city of Natal in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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Forte Príncipe da Beira
Principe da Beira (Forte Principe de Rivera) is a fortification on the lower part of the Guaporé River close to its confluence with the Mamoré River in the Brazilian state of Rondônia.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Giant anteater
The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), also known as the ant bear, is a large insectivorous mammal native to Central and South America.
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Giant otter
The giant otter or giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal.
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Global 200
The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by WWF, the global conservation organization, as priorities for conservation.
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Goiás
Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the Center-West region of the country. The name Goiás (formerly, Goyaz) comes from the name of an indigenous community. The original word seems to have been guaiá, a compound of gua e iá, meaning "the same person" or "people of the same origin." It borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The most populous state of its region, Goiás is characterized by a landscape of chapadões (plateaus). In the height of the drought season, from June to September, the lack of rain makes the level of the Araguaia River go down and exposes almost of beaches, making it the main attraction of the State. At the Emas National Park in the municipality of Mineiros, it is possible to observe the typical fauna and flora from the region. At the Chapada dos Veadeiros the attractions are the canyons, valleys, rapids and waterfalls. Other attractions are the historical city of Goiás (or Old Goiás), from Goiânia, established in the beginning of 18th Century, and Caldas Novas, with its hot water wells attracting more than one million tourists per year. In Brazil's geoeconomic division, Goiás belongs to the Centro-Sul (Center-South), being the northernmost state of the southern portion of Brazil.
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Goiás, Goiás
Goiás (also known as Goiás Velho, Old Goiás) is a municipality in the state of Goiás in Brazil.
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Guanabara Bay
Guanabara Bay (Baía de Guanabara) is an oceanic bay located in Southeast Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Guaraní people
Guaraní are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of South America.
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Gustavo Capanema Palace
The Gustavo Capanema Palace (in Portuguese, Palácio Gustavo Capanema), also known architecturally as the Ministry of Education and Health Building, is a government office building in the Centro district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Hawksbill sea turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.
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Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
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Historic Center (Salvador)
The Historic Center (US) or Centre (UK; Centro Histórico) of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, also known as the Pelourinho (Portuguese for "Pillory") or Pelo, is a historic neighborhood in western Salvador, Bahia.
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Igapó
Igapó (from Old Tupi: "root forest") is a word used in Brazil for blackwater-flooded forests in the Amazon biome.
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Iguaçu National Park
Iguaçu National Park is a national park in Paraná State, Brazil.
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Iguazu Falls
Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls (Cataratas del Iguazú; Chororo Yguasu; Cataratas do Iguaçu) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná.
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Iguazu River
The Iguazu River (br, Río Iguazú; also called Rio Iguassu) is a river in Brazil and Argentina.
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Ingá Stone
The Ingá Stone (Pedra do Ingá in Portuguese) is located in the middle of the Ingá River near the small city of Ingá, 96 km from João Pessoa, in Paraíba State in the northeast of Brazil.
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Jaú National Park
The Jaú National Park (Parque Nacional do Jaú) is a national park located in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
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Jesuit missions
The phrase Jesuit Missions usually refer to a Jesuit missionary enterprise in a particular area, involving a large number of Jesuits priests and brothers, and lasting over a long period of time.
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Lake Pampulha
Lake Pampulha (Portuguese: Lagoa da Pampulha) is an artificial lake located in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Lúcio Costa
Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa (27 February 1902 – 13 June 1998) was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses) is a national park located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil, just east of the Baía de São José, between 02º19’—02º45’ S and 42º44’—43º29’ W. It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes.
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List of endemic bird areas of the world
The following is a list of endemic bird areas of the world, as defined by Birdlife International - see main article (Endemic Bird Area).
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List of World Heritage in Danger
The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention,Full title: Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites.
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Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve (Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá) in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, near the city of Tefé, is a reserve near the village of Boca do Mamirauá.
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Maranhão
Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil.
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Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso (– lit. "Thick Bushes") is one of the states of Brazil, the third-largest by area, located in the western part of the country.
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Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil.
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.
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Misiones Province
Misiones (Missions) is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Natural heritage
Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures.
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Nossa Senhora do Monserrate do Rio de Janeiro
The Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat (Abadia de Nossa Senhora do Monserrate), more commonly known as the Mosteiro de São Bento (Monastery of St. Benedict), is a Benedictine abbey located on the Morro de São Bento (St. Benedict Hill) in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Nuestra Señora de Loreto
Reducción de Nuestra Señora de Loreto (Reduction of Our Lady of Laurel), founded in 1610, was the first reductions established by the Jesuits in the Province of Paraguay in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.
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Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana
Reducción de Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana (Reduction of Our Lady of Saint Ana) was one of the many colonial missions for Indian Reductions founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits in South America during the Spanish colonial period.
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Olinda
Olinda, is an historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, in Greater Recife (capital of Pernambuco State). It has a population of 389,494 people, covers, and has a population of 9 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is noted as one of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil. Olinda features a number of major tourist attractions, such as a historic downtown area (World Heritage Site), churches, and the Carnival of Olinda, a popular street party, very similar to traditional Portuguese carnivals, with the addition of African influenced dances. Unlike in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, in Olinda, admission to Carnival is free. All the festivities are celebrated on the streets, and there are no bleachers or roping. There are hundreds of small musical groups (sometimes featuring a single performer) in many genres.
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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer, was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
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Ouro Preto
Ouro Preto (Black Gold) is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains and designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque architecture.
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Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
Pampulha (Portuguese: Região Administrativa da Pampulha) is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Pampulha Modern Ensemble
The Pampulha Modern Ensemble (Portuguese: Conjunto Moderno da Pampulha) is an urban project in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Pantanal
The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area.
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Paranapiacaba
Paranapiacaba is a district of the municipality of Santo André in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
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Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the province of Misiones, Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line.
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Paraty
Paraty (or Parati) is a preserved Portuguese colonial (1500–1822) and Brazilian Imperial (1822–1889) municipality with a population of about 36,000.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.
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Peruaçu River
The Peruaçu River is a river of Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.
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Piauí
Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region.
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Pico da Neblina National Park
Pico da Neblina National Park (Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina) is a national park in the state of Amazonas in the north of Brazil, bordering on Venezuela.
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Quixadá Monoliths Natural Monument
The Quixadá Monoliths Natural Monument (Monumento Natural dos Monólitos de Quixadá) is a formation of inselbergs in the state of Ceará, Brazil, that has been designated a natural monument.
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Raso da Catarina Ecological Station
Raso da Catarina Ecological Station (Estação Ecológica Raso da Catarina) is a strictly protected ecological station in the state of Bahia in Brazil.
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Reducción de Santa María la Mayor, Argentina
Reducción de Santa María la Mayor (Reduction of Holy Maria Major), located in the Santa María Department of the Misiones Province, Argentina, at approximate coordinates, was one of the missions or reductions founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Rio de Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.
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Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden
The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden or Jardim Botânico is located at the Jardim Botânico district in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte (lit. "Great Northern River", in reference to the mouth of the Potenji River) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern region of the country, occupying the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent.
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Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (lit. Great Southern River) is a state located in the southern region of Brazil.
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Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous.
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Rocas Atoll
The Rocas Atoll (Atol das Rocas) is the only atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Salvador, Bahia
Salvador, also known as São Salvador, Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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San Ignacio Miní
San Ignacio Miní was one of the many missions founded in 1632, in Argentina, by the Jesuits in what the colonial Spaniards called the Province of Paraguay of the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.
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São Cristóvão
São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher) is a Brazilian municipality in the Northeastern state of Sergipe.
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São Francisco Square
São Francisco Square (Praça São Francisco) in São Cristóvão, Brazil, is an open space surrounded by colonial-period buildings such as the Church and Convent of Santa Cruz (São Francisco Church), the Misericórdia Hospital and Church, the Provincial Palace and other buildings from later periods.
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São Luís, Maranhão
São Luís (Saint Louis) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão.
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São Marcelo Fort
São Marcelo Fort, formally known as Forte de Nossa Senhora do Pópulo e São Marcelo is located in Salvador in Bahia, Brazil.
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São Miguel das Missões
São Miguel das Missões is a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil.
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São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.
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Sergipe
Sergipe, officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil.
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Serra da Bocaina National Park
Serra da Bocaina National Park is a national park of Brazil.
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Serra da Canastra National Park
Serra da Canastra National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Canastra) is a national park in the Canastra Mountains of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara,, locally) is a national park in the Northeastern region of Brazil.
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Serra do Divisor National Park
The Serra do Divisor National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor) is a national park on the westernmost point of Brazil, in the state of Acre, near the Peruvian border.
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Serra do Mar
Serra do Mar (Portuguese for Sea's ridge or Sea ridge) is a 1,500 km long system of mountain ranges and escarpments in Southeastern Brazil.
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Taim Ecological Station
The Taim Ecological Station (Estação Ecológica do Taim) is a federally-administered ecological station in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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Theatro da Paz
The Theatro Nossa Senhora da Paz theater, or simply Theatro da Paz (Peace Theater), is located in the city of Belém, in the state of Pará, in Brazil.
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Tijuca Forest
The Tijuca Forest (Floresta da Tijuca) is a tropical rainforest in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Valongo Wharf
The Valongo Wharf (Cais do Valongo) is an old dock located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro, between the current Coelho e Castro and Sacadura Cabral streets.
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Várzea forest
A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome.
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Ver-o-peso
Ver-o-peso market is a market hall in Belém, Brazil located at Guajará Bay riverside.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, monitors the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Brazil
