About this site

DonaBrasil.com is a website about Brazil, the Brazilian culture and the Brazilian way of life. DonaBrasil.com is designed for people who have a special interest in Brazil for whatever reason: this might be travelers, this might be expats, this might be consumers of Brazilian products, this might be music lovers, this might be people who love football or capoeira and this might be people who already made some Brazilian friends. DonaBrasil.com provides practical advise and the basic background for understanding this beautiful country.

Making and maintaining this website started as hobby but DonaBrasil.com quickly became an authority on this subject. In 2007, DonaBrasil.com was registered under number 09172331 at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. More and more content is added frequently so it is worth to keep visiting this website!

The creators

Sílvia Henrique Rocha - Kantebeen (1978) studies Consumer Sciences at Wageningen University. She was born in Sete Lagoas in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. After studying economy at the Federal University of Uberlândia for one year, she left for the Netherlands in 2002. She enrolled at Wageningen University immediately after her arrival. Read more about Sílvia on her

Pim Kantebeen (1976) was born in Heerlen in the Dutch province of Limburg. In 1998, he travelled to Brazil for the first time as a student of Wageningen University. He did a practical period at the Brazilian national research enterprise Embrapa in Sete Lagoas. Since then, he has spent a lot of time in South-America.

The views and opinions expressed by the authors are strictly theirs and are not reviewed or approved by any organisation.

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