Pernambouc (State)
See also: Pernambouc (homonymy)
The Pernambouc (in Portuguese Pernambuco ) (EP), of the federate States Brésil is one.
It is located at the center is Nordeste area; it is bordered in the east by the Atlantic Ocean.
It has a surface of 98.937 km ² and counts 8.413.593 inhabitants (IBGE 2005).
Its climate is tropical on the coast, and semi-arid in the grounds. Annual temperature of 28 °C.
Its capital is Recife.
It is on the fertile grounds of Pernambouc that, at the time of colonization, the " settle; lords of moulin" who will turn into to Brazil the first world sugar producer, at the XVIIe century. The valorization of this product on the European markets attracts there, indeed, of many colonists. Pressed to populate the immense littoral in waste land, the lords Portuguese (but so Dutch, Norman or English) link themselves readily with the Indians of the country, like later with the black slaves from Africa to be useful in the " grande" put; , the house of Master, and to work with the fields. " The belly, which gives the children, is the producing part of the property esclave" , clamp then a proclamation, quoted by the sociologist nordestin Joaquim Nabuco. From these unions will be born a mongrel population suitable for the area: the Caboclo S, with the unforeseeable genetic whims. In the dirt tracks which bleed the fields of cane with sugar, it is not rare to meet small pink mulattos as of the Jesus Flemish, the red-headed Indians, or the " galegos" , let us négrillons with the gilded loops, remote heritage of a Portuguese ancestor. With the abolition of slavery, at the XIXe century, Pernambouc had lost its dominating place on the sugar market, but the invention of the spark-ignition engine running on alcohol hoisted it in the forefront of the countries pioneers of the " oil vert" , carburizing future. However, for a few years, the economic crisis has made fall the production, intensifying the social unrest.
Simple: Pernambuco
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