Grande Seca

Grande Seca, Kekeringan Besar, atau kekeringan Brasil 1877–1878 adalah kekeringan terbesar dan paling merusak dalam sejarah Brasil."Drought, Smallpox, and Emergence of Leishmania braziliensis in Northeastern Brazil ." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Kekeringan tersebut menyebabkan kematian antara 400.000 dan 500.000 orang.Amazônia: interesses e conflitos  "Ó Gráda, C.: Famine: A Short History ." Princeton University Press. Dari 800.000 orang yang tinggal di Wilayah Timur Laut yang terdampak, sekitar 120.000 bermigrasi ke Amazon sementara 68.000 bermigrasi ke belahan Brasil lainnya.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan
Nonfiksi
Michael H. Glantz; Currents of Change : El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society; published 1996 by Cambridge University Press. 
Michael H. Glantz (editor); Drought Follows The Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas; published 1994 by Cambridge University Press. 
Fagan, Brian; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; published 2000 by Basic Books. 
Nicholas G. Arons; Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil; published 2004 by University of Arizona Press. 
Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands

Fiksi
Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel

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