Inside Brazil

The original inhabitants of the land we know as Brazil today included the Arawaks and Caribs in the north, the Guaraní on the east coast and along the River Amazon, the Ge towards the south, and the Pano in the west.

Brazil is made up of 26 states and the federal district. The states are Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, and Tocantins. The federal district includes Brasília, which replaced Rio de Janeiro as the national capital in 1960.