Best Traditional Brazilian Iguaçu Falls UNESCO 1986, São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Pantanal, Brasília UNESCO 1987 and Ouro Preto UNESCO 1980 Southern Brazil Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Brazil travel | Americas destinations Best Traditional Brazilian Iguaçu Falls UNESCO 1986, São Paulo, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Pantanal, Brasília UNESCO 1987 and Ouro Preto UNESCO 1980 Southern Brazil Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world at 8.5 million square kilometres, home to 215 million Portuguese-speaking people, and it pulls in roughly 11 million international tourists a year. Most travellers know Rio de Janeiro and the postcard beaches, but the real depth of the country sits a little further inland and south. Iguaçu Falls became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Brazilian side in 1986, with the Argentine side already listed in 1984, and the combined 275 cataracts spread across an 80 metre drop and a 2.7 kilometre wall make it the largest waterfall system on Earth. Brasília, the planned modernist capital that Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa drew on paper between 1956 and 1960, joined the UNESCO list in 19...