Brazil
covers almost half of South America . The country divides
its borders in North, the South and the East with almost all
the countries of South America (excluded Chile and Ecuador).
Brazil is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west. It is
a relatively flat country and the mountainous zones do not
exceed 3000 meters of altitude. Nearly 60% of the surface
is a plate, the remainder being a plain.
The basin of Rio of Plata to the confluence of the rivers
Parana and Uruguay (both having their source in Brazil) in
the south of the country is practically the zone of which
topography is varied. It is more raised zone and which is
not covered by the Amazonian forest. In the North of the Amazonas
river, one finds the grounds high of Guyana, a zone of tropical
forest and rocky desert. The high grounds of the interior
between the Amazonas river and the river basins of the South
form an immense plate called el Mato Grosso. From Mato Grosso
a mountainous chain rises towards the Western South parallel
with the littoral of the Atlantic Ocean.
FIVE GREAT
AREAS CARACTERISTIQUES
Brazil is divided into 27 administrative units, are 23 States,
three territories (Amapa, Roraima and the archipelago Fernando
de Noronha), and the federal district of Brasilia. These units
are gathered in five areas, having each geographical and human
characteristic different.
- area NORTE corresponds to Amazonia, with Belém and
Manaus
( Acre - Amapá - Amazonas - Pará - Rondônia
- Roraima - Tocantins )
- area NORDESTE gathers all the small Coastal states of North,
with the towns of El Salvador, Recife, Natal, Fortaleza and
Sao Luis.
( Alagoas - Bahia - Ceará - Maranhão - Paraíba
- Pernambuco - Piauí - Rio Large C Norte - Sergipe
)
- area SUDESTE forms the industrial triangle, formed by Sao
Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
( Goiás - Mato Grosso - Mato Grosso C Sul - Federal
Distrito )
- area CENTRO-OESTE corresponds to the central plate of Brazil,
with Mato Grosso and the capital féderale Brasilia
( Espírito Santo - Undermined Gerais - Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo )
- area SUL joins together the States of the South, with the
towns of Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Florianopolis.
( Paraná - Rio Large C Sul - Santa Catarina )
The population
of the country is concentrated in the states of the South
East: Undermined Gerais, Sao Paulo and Parana. The town of
Sao Paulo east one of the most populated Brazil with 9 million
inhabitants. Rio de Janeiro counts 5,5 million inhabitants.
