Avenida Brasil (English: Brazil Avenue)[1] is a Brazilian primetime telenovela created by João Emanuel Carneiro.

It was written by Carneiro in collaboration with Antonio Prata, Luciana Pessanha, Alessandro Marson, Marcia Prates and Thereza Falcão, and directed by José Luiz Villamarim, Amora Mautner, and Ricardo Waddington.

It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Murilo Benício, Débora Falabella, Cauã Reymond, Alexandre Borges, Vera Holtz, José de Abreu, Nathalia Dill, Ísis Valverde, Heloísa Périssé, Marcelo Novaes, Fabíula Nascimento, Otávio Augusto, Paula Burlamaqui, Carol Abras, Bruno Gissoni, Thiago Martins, Débora Nascimento, Juliano Cazarré, Felipe Abib, Bianca Comparato, Cacau Protásio, Daniel Rocha, Ronny Kriwat, Cláudia Missura, Patrícia de Jesus, Leticia Isnard, Luana Martau, Marcella Valente, Emiliano D'Ávila, Mel Maia, Débora Bloch, Juca de Oliveira, Carolina Ferraz, Eliane Giardini, Camila Morgado, Betty Faria, Marcos Caruso, Ailton Graça, Adriana Esteves, and Tony Ramos.

At the landfill, Rita is subjected to child labor under the control of a deplorable man, Nilo (José de Abreu), but she is lucky enough to meet Batata (Cauã Reymond), a boy who becomes her best friend and true love.

Years later, unrecognizable and motivated by vengeance, Nina moves back to Brazil under her adoptive name and infiltrates Carminha's family by becoming their personal chef.

As mentioned above, vile Carminha has managed to lure and marry Tufão, who is a friendly, rich football player and is unaware of her many lies and manipulations.

They live with his loud and garish relatives in an unrefined suburban mansion and, underhandedly, she makes the evil Max her brother-in-law by marrying him to Tufão's annoying sister.

Upon Max convincing Carminha to leave the mansion, she betrays him to death-trap from drowning him in his boat but timely survived by his mother Lucinda.

The last chapter notoriously ceased major activities in Brazil, when the streets of big cities as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were deserted.

Rede Globo's programming had segments dedicated to the soap opera and several other Brazilian television networks also commented on its end.

With the high number of television sets tuned in, a hoax quickly spread about a possible nationwide blackout after the broadcast, due to an effect called "loading ramp", where people resume activities which could generate an electricity overload, leaving the country in the dark.

Avenida Brasil has become the most exported telenovela made by Rede Globo, surpassing Da Cor do Pecado (ibid), which was the prior sales leader for other countries.

[52] The telenovela has been licensed by more than 150 countries, including all of Latin America, the United States, South Korea, Armenia and Sweden, being dubbed into 19 languages.