André Marques is a Brazilian jazz pianist working with the Hermeto Pascoal group since joining in the mid-1990s as a teenager. Born and raised in São Paulo, Marques had already been an established professional pianist by his early teens. Aside from the Hermeto Pascoal group, Marques is known for his work with the jazz trio, Trio Curupira along with Cleber Almeida and Fábio Gouvêa. Marques is a multi-instrumentalist; including piano, Marques also plays flute, piccolo, accordion, and melodica.
The Curupira is a mythological creature present in the Tupi-Guarani myths in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.
The saddleback toads (Brachycephalus) are a genus of tiny toads and frogs in the family Brachycephalidae in the order Anura, ranging from south Bahia to Santa Catarina in southeastern Brazil. The genus includes two main groups, the often brightly coloured pumpkin toadlets, and the overall brown and more frog-like flea frogs, which once were placed in their own genus Psyllophryne. Some pumpkin toadlets are toxic and their often bright colours are considered aposematic. At about 1 cm (0.4 in) or less in snout–to–vent length, the flea frogs are some of the smallest frogs in the world.
Brazilian mythology is the subset of Brazilian folklore with cultural elements of diverse origin found in Brazil, comprising folk tales, traditions, characters and beliefs regarding places, people, and entities. The category was originally restricted to indigenous elements, but has been extended to include:
Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world. As of July 2021, the circumscription of the family varies; some sources maintain a broad family, others split it into seven segregate families.
Beastmaster is a television series that aired from 1999 to 2002. It was loosely based on the 1982 MGM film The Beastmaster, which was itself loosely adapted from the novel The Beast Master by Andre Norton. The series aired 66 episodes over three complete seasons. It was produced by Coote/Hayes Productions.
Satanoperca is a small genus of cichlids from South America, where they are known from the Orinoco, Essequibo, Nickerie, Amazon and Paraná–Paraguay river basins. They are mainly found in areas with slow-moving waters, but some species have also been recorded from rapids.
Colombian folklore are beliefs, customs and cultural traditions in Colombia.
CaiporaPortuguese pronunciation:[kajˈpɔɾɐ] is an entity of the Tupi-Guaraní mythology in Brazil. The word "Caipora" comes from Tupi and means "inhabitant of the forest".
Luiz Carlos de Castro Tourinho Filho was a Brazilian actor.
Guanano (Wanano), or Piratapuyo, is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia. It is spoken by two peoples, the Wanano and the Piratapuyo. They do not intermarry, but their speech is 75% lexically similar.
Hoplias is a genus of fish in the family Erythrinidae found in Central and South America.
The Terra Ronca State Park was created by decree nr. 10,879 of 7 July 1989 and had its area and boundaries established by decree nr. 4,700 of 21 August 1996, covering the municipality of São Domingos. Around the state park they created the environmental protection area (APA) of the Serra Geral, by decree nr. 4,666 of 16 April 1996. The areas of these two protected areas are of restricted use and regularly monitored and audited by the Agência Goiana de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais, covering respectively 57,018 and 40,000 hectares.
Hoplias curupira, also known as the black wolf-fish, has a wide distribution in the Amazon basin but was described as recently as 2009.
Adetus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae.
The Brazil–Venezuela border is the limit that separates the territories of Brazil and Venezuela. It was delimited by the Treaty of Limits and River Navigation of May 5, 1859 and ratified by the Protocol of 1929. The geographical boundary begins at the triple point between Brazil-Colombia-Venezuela at Cucuy Rock and continues up the Maturacá channel to the Huá waterfall; it then follows a straight line to the top of a mountain called Cerro Cupi. It then follows the crest of the drainage divide between the Orinoco and Amazon river basins up to the Brazil-Guyana-Venezuela border tripoint on top of Mount Roraima, thus covering a total of 2,199 kilometres through the Imeri, Tapirapecó, Curupira and Urucuzeiro mountain ranges, and the Parima, Auari, Urutanim and Pacaraima ranges, in the Guiana Shield.
Xuxa e o Tesouro da Cidade Perdida is a 2004 Brazilian fantasy adventure children's film, written by Flávio de Souza, directed by Moacyr Góes, produced by Diler Trindade and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Globo Filmes. Starring Xuxa Meneghel, Marcos Pasquim, Juliana Knust, Paulo Vilhena, Sérgio Hondjakoff, Natália Lage, Zezé Motta, Bruna Marquezine, Milton Gonçalves and Sérgio Malheiros. Xuxa lives a biologist in a town near the Amazon Rainforest. Alongside the brothers Riacho and Manhã, she seeks the lost city of Igdrasil, which according to legend was founded by descendants of Vikings who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and ventured down the Amazon River.
A Marvada Carne is a 1985 Brazilian romantic comedy film directed by André Klotzel and starring Fernanda Torres, Adilson Barros and Regina Casé.
Invisible City is a Brazilian fantasy streaming television series created by Carlos Saldanha. It is based on a story co-developed by the screenwriters and best-selling authors Raphael Draccon and Carolina Munhóz. It stars Marco Pigossi as Eric, an environmental police officer who uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore, as he searches for a connection between his wife's death and the mysterious appearance of a dead pink river dolphin on a beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Brachycephalus curupira is a species of amphibian in the family Brachycephalidae, found in the city of São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil.
