San Leon. Original Mexican colonization laws allowed only people of Mexican or Spanish decent to settle on coastal land. However, Stephen F. Austin became the first American empressario given permission to colonize the Galveston Bay area. He sold a league of land bordering Galveston Bay and Dickinson Bayou to Amos Edwards in 1828. The Edwards family lived and ranched on the estate for nearly a decade.
Brazil is famous for its soccer team and culture, better known as âJogo Bonito.â The beautiful style of Brazilian soccer players has wowed the world because it is highly entertaining.
Brazil, the worldâs fifth-largest country, is dominated by the Amazon River basin and the worldâs largest rain forest. The population of more than 200 million is heavily concentrated on the coast, where a dozen major metropolitan areas with populations of a million or more offer direct access to the Atlantic Ocean.