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Maps of natural resources guide environmental and infrastructure projects December 04, 2017

The Surveying of Natural Resources released today by the IBGE is not only a cartographic representation of the relief, vegetation, soil and subsoil...

IBGE releases new edition of political map of Brazilian regions November 23, 2017

The IBGE has just updated the version of the political-administrative maps of the Brazilian regions. The last update was carried out in 2009. Produced...

Cachaca, grapes and mangoes from Bahia have origin stamp November 06, 2017

The cachaca from Abaíra and table grapes and mangoes from the Sub-median Valley of the São Francisco River are the representatives from Bahia in...

Retratos Magazine: when routes become art September 15, 2017

Plastic artists from all over the world use different means to express their creativity, even GPS navigation devices from artificial satellites....

Products from São Bento de Urânia-ES, Marialva-PR, São Mateus do Sul-PR and from western Paraná are awarded quality certificate September 13, 2017

Four Brazilian localities received, from the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), between August 2016 and July 2017, the Seal of Indication...

IBGE releases new issue of the Brazilian Journal of Geography August 31, 2017

The IBGE released, today, the first issue of volume 62 of the Brazilian Journal of Geography (RBG). The content of this edition has been elaborated...

On a bus to Peru: who are the passengers of the biggest bus line in the world August 03, 2017

Tour the ways of the Incan city of Machu Picchu, get to know the mysterious Nazca Lines, admire the colonial architecture of Lima, taste the traditional...

New proposal for territorial classification portrays a less urban Brazil July 31, 2017

With an eye on the dissemination of the 2020 Population Census, the IBGE proposes a new typology to characterize urban and rural areas. Using this...

IBGE portrays Brazilian urbanization July 27, 2017

"Two cities with the same environmental characteristics and equivalent population may grow in a completely different way", explains Pedro Henrique...

Women safety measures sustainable cities July 25, 2017

Released in June by the IBGE, the 2017 edition of the Digital National Atlas of Brazil included two indicators related to the safety and representativeness...

Salinas, national capital of artisanal cachaça July 21, 2017

Salinas, a municipality in northern Minas Gerais, housed, last weekend, another edition of an event conducted every year since 2002: the World Festival...

Data collection application for Census of Agriculture 2017 will follow enumerators in real time July 19, 2017

The data collection application for the Census of Agriculture 2017, whose questionnaires begin to be applied on October 1st, brings a new feature:...

São Paulo is the city with more links of public transportation June 30, 2017

There are 65,939 links between a Brazilian city and other cities either in Brazil or abroad, through bus, ship, boat, van or any other kind of public...

Getting to know the territory in its connections June 29, 2017

Construction of geographic knowledge aimed at recent transformations in the dynamics of municipalities: the new Regional Division of Brazil, released...

Brazil still has no sustainable cities June 28, 2017

Along the national territory, the analysis of the condition of the housing units and areas where they are located points out that Brazil is far from...

Brazil has three new metropolitan areas May 23, 2017

Three new metropolitan areas (RMs) have been added to the group already registered in Brazil between 2015 and 2016, amounting to a total 69 RMs in...

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