Brazil
Brazil was a South American nation which was part of the Amazon. One of its major cities was Rio de Janeiro. (TV: The Hungry Earth) A type of nut grew in the area and the Portugese language was spoken there. Indigenous people included Latoni's tribe and (TV: Black Orchid) the Nambikwara of Mato Grosso. (TV: Death of the Doctor) Many of these tribes were displaced following the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in 2060. (AUDIO: Loups-Garoux)
Enola Tucker, interested in her uncle's work, went with him to Brazil. (PROSE: The Glamour Chase) Lady Cranleigh said her son, the botanist George Cranleigh, died in the Brazilian forests in 1923 during an expedition. (TV: Black Orchid) In 1983, Josephine Jones spent six months in Mato Grosso with the Nambikwara. (PROSE: Death of the Doctor) In 2080, the Fifth Doctor and Turlough visited Rio de Janeiro for the Rio Carnival and encountered werewolves. (AUDIO: Loups-Garoux)
A snake from Brazil was one of the animals on board the Ark. (TV: The Ark)
Rose Tyler hypothesised that, if she were to arrive in Brazil by TARDIS, she might need her passport. She later admitted that this was a ruse to get Mickey Smith to visit her. (TV: Boom Town)
Behind the scenes
- In Black Orchid, there is some confusion about geography with the Orinoco seemingly being located in Brazil. The novelisation indicates that George and Latoni were in Venezuela.
- Brazil was the location of the dinosaur inhabited Maple White Land from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. All-Consuming Fire featured Lord John Roxton and mentioned Professor Challenger, two of the men who explored the plateau. It was also the location of the Black Lagoon in Creature from the Black Lagoon. Alan Moore described the two locales as a few miles apart in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and posited a connection.
