Mato Grosso
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Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian
Chapada dos Guimarães National Park
Cuiabá, the capital and financial center of the state, in 2022.
Campus of the Federal University of Mato Grosso in Cuiabá
Soy plantation in Brasnorte
Percy Fawcett
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Percy Harrison Fawcett was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer/surveyor, archaeologist and explorer of South America. He disappeared in 1925 during an expedition to find an ancient l
Mato Grosso
…remote area attracted expeditions of exploration in the early 20th century that sought to find lost civilizations. A notable example was British Captain Percy Fawcett's expedition to find the Lost City of Z which he believed existed in the jungles of Brazil. Certain proponents of the Hollow Earth hypothesis speculated…
Fawcett in 1911