Peruvian fabrics, rugs and artifacts now adorn a Brazilian interior once meant to suggest an Italian trattoria.

The word capoeira probably comes from the Tupi language, referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior.

At first glance, quilombos like this one, whose name means red clay mangrove thicket, seem indistiguishable from any other poor village in the Brazilian interior.

Thirty-six years after this planned city rose in the no man's land of the Brazilian interior, it still has no neighborhoods.

Besides the purpose of capturing natives as slaves bandeiras were also used to extend the power of Portugal by expanding its control over the Brazilian interior.

The founding of Goiânia is now considered a fact of successful settlement of the Brazilian interior.

Before long, he was recording songs extolling the beauty of kinky hair and recalling the independent colonies set up in the Brazilian interior by runaway slaves.

The cultural conquest of the Brazilian interior continues to this day.

Particularly poignant was a scream overheard when he was canoeing through the "putrid exhalations" of mangrove swamps in the Brazilian interior.

The subtitle refers to the local trains in the small communities of the Brazilian interior, the noises of which are imitated in the composition (Slonimsky 1945, 147).