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lençois maranhenses

Stretching on for miles upon miles, the sand dunes in Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are so vast and so blindingly white that it's easy to see how the park got its name- Lençóis Maranhenses, in Portuguese, literally means "bedsheets of Maranhão," the northeastern coastal state where the national park is found.

 
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Gaúchos of argentina, uruguay and southern brazil

Wherever you have cattle and cattle ranches, you have people on horseback tending to them. They're called by many names: a cowboy in the US; gaucho in Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil; vaqueiro in northern Brazil; huaso in Chile, and llaneroin Colombia and Venezuela.