Midwest region
Culture
We highlight the cavalhadas (festivals that simulate medieval battles between Christians and Moors) and other folk festivals. In cooking, the dishes are: rice with pequi, curau, capybara casserole, fish tile, quentao, pudding plantain, chicken and others.
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Climate
The climate of the Midwest region of Brazil is tropical, hot and rainy, always present in the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás The most striking feature of this hot weather is the presence of a rainy summer, between the months of October to March and a dry winter, between May and September.The northwestern region, occupied by the Amazon, is covered by equatorial climate, and the remainder by the tropical climate. Temperatures are higher than in the south. The winter with temperatures above 18 ° C during the summer, temperatures can reach temperatures above 25 ° C. There is significant decline in temperature occurs when the phenomenon of the cold, which is the arrival of a mass that polar Atlantic through the Paraguay River valley, reaches throughout the western states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul The rains, and concentrated in just one season, are distributed unevenly in the region, reaching over 2,500 mm in the northwest of Mato Grosso and reducing it to little more than 1 200 mm most of the territory. In the higher regions of the Central Plateau is the tropical climate of altitude and the minimum is less frost may occur in these regions. In other parts of the region is also standard frosts occur.
The summer months are wet, because at that time, the Plain of the Pantanal is one of the hottest areas of South America, and therefore, form a core of low pressure that draws the humid winds known as the northeast trade winds. The arrival of these winds corresponds to the heavy rains that fall in the region. The northern region of high temperatures and high rainfall, includes features of the equatorial climate. In the rest of the region, the effect of continentality causes appear more dry tropical climate, and consequently, the landscape reveals plant density is lower, presenting in the form of cerrado.
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Tourism
The Midwest region of Brazil, tourism is developing rapidly in the Midwest, attracting visitors from around the world. The region best known is the Pantanal. It is the largest river swamp in the world with varied vegetation and rich fauna. Other points of interest are plated, as dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, and the Veadeiros, Goias Goias In the southeast, the attraction is the Parque Nacional das Emas. There is still Brasília, founded in 1960 and characterized by modern architecture and is now one of the largest cities in Brazil - "Patrôminio of Humanity."
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The cuisine of Mato Grosso has culinary influences of African, Portuguese, Italian, Syrian and the migration of recent years also dishes from other regions. Dishes and Mato Grosso considered are: Maria Isabel (dried beef with rice) baked with the Pacu farofa cabbage, dried meat with plantain green farofa plantain mature beyond the traditional barbecue wetland that developed by long trains of cattle in the Pantanal. The fish in Mato Grosso is a plentiful food, considered as the main riverine areas. It can be eaten fried, baked or boiled, filled with cassava flour or served with pieces of cassava. The fish most prestigious places at the tables are the Pacu, piraputangas, catfish, gold, the cache, the geripoca the pacupeva, the painted, etc.. The people of Mato Grosso also appreciates the pequi with rice, beef stew with okra and roasted meat. There is still Guarana grating used primarily by older, whose custom is to take in the morning. For breakfast, it does highlight the Rice Cake and Cheese Cake. We highlight the variety of sweets and liquors valued by Mato Grosso. We like the more famous Furrundu (sweet made from papaya and brown sugar cane), the sweet mangaba, sweet guava, cashew candy in syrup, sweet fig, sweet pumpkin, and others. As an appetizer we have pequi Liquor, Liquor cashew, Liquor mangaba, and others. Pequi is a very popular fruit in the culinary state of Goias, usually eaten with rice or boiled chicken. The corn has a strong presence in cooking Goiás. Harvested when still green, their grain on the cob can be cooked and eaten that way, or sliced and sauteed. The corn is also the main ingredient of many dishes, such as Pamonha the Angu and curâl /. Another traditional dish is the Goiás Goiás pie, a pie filling his salt is composed of various ingredients and common in the region, such as chicken, pork sausage, green maize and others. Are highly prized pork derivatives such as sausage, crackling, and the crackly feijoada. The culinary Goias and has had strong influence on cuisine from Minas Gerais, but preserves its identity.The state of Mato Grosso do Sul, paraguiaia received much influence as the "Paraguayan soup," the northeast, the use of cassava flour and toast. The wetland had great influence on culunária well as game meat (Tatu, Alligator Anta). It was also much appreciated the spaghetti cowboy, a sort of soup with a little broth.
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people
His stand is a result of migration, this was primarily due to the transport of cattle from South and Southeast for the first farms in the Midwest, and the performance of the Paulist.
In recent decades, the region has been very attractive to migratory flows, especially in the Northeast. This process intensified in the 1950s with the construction of Brasilia. But the Brazilian Center-West migration has absorbed throughout Brazil, are people from various parts of the country are moving into the region in search of employment and better living conditions.
