If you are visiting Recife Pernambuco s Capital you will find a list of placestourists would love to visit. Here are some exclusive photos and tips. Walkingaround old Recife is an opportunity to know the city and take fantasticpictures of the places where part of the Brazilian history was made. Recife is located where the Beberibe Rivermeets the Capibaribe River to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. It is amajor port on the Atlantic Ocean. Its name is an allusion to the stone reefsthat are present by the city's shores. The many rivers, small islands andover 50 bridges found in Recife city center characterize its geography andgives it the moniker of the "Brazilian Venice." As of 2010, itis the capital city with the highest HDI in Northeast Brazil. The city is also an educational center, andhome to the Federal University of Pernambuco, the largest university inPernambuco. Several Brazilian historical figures, such as the poet andabolitionist Castro Alves, moved to Recife to attain their education. Recifeand Natal are the only Brazilian cities with direct flights to the islands ofFernando de Noronha, World Heritage Site. A BIT OF GEOGRAPHY:Due to the city's proximity to the equator line,Recife weather is generally warm. Recife has a number of islands, rivers,waterways and bridges that crisscross the city. Recife is located amidsttropical forests which are distinguished by high rainfall levels resulting inpoor soil quality as the rainfall washes away the nutrients. There is anabsence of extreme temperatures and a cool breeze due to the trade winds fromthe Atlantic Ocean. A BIT OF ECONOMY:Recife is one ofBrazil's prime business centers, largely because it has one InternationalAirport and two International ports. One is located in the town itself, and theother, the port of Suape, is located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) away.Just south of Recife is the region's main industrial area, where the followingindustries can be found: brewing and canning, shipbuilding, automotive,electronics, tube manufacturing, chocolate manufacturing, textiles, etc. Recife has shared in the prosperity ofNortheastern Brazil that resulted from development promoted after 1960 bySudene (Superintendencia para o Desenvolvimento do Nordeste), a federalorganization. Although its retail and wholesale trade have grown in response tothe region's increases in population and wealth, the market area and thewalkways of the city's bridges are crowded with vendors selling small items. Recife has an areadedicated to information technology called "Porto Digital" (DigitalPort) with more than 90 companies and 3,000 High Tech Jobs. It was founded inJuly 2000 and has since attracted major investments. Generating some R$10billion (Brazilian Reais) a year, it produces technology that is exported toJapan, China, among other countries. Software manufacturing is the mainactivity in the Porto Digital. The Porto Digital cluster comprises small andmedium companies, but multinationals like Accenture, Motorola, Samsung, Delland Sun Microsystems are also installed in Porto Digital. IBM and Microsofttransferred their regional headquarters to Recife. Porto Digital's startups can count on a ready pool of talent, courtesy of the Federal University of Pernambuco(UFPE), which boasts one of the best computer-science departments in all ofLatin America. The school began teaching programmers to use Sun MicrosystemsInc.'s (SUNW) Java language in 1996, the year