Brazil

Brazil


LOCATION OF BRAZIL


     Brazil lies between thirty five degrees west longitude and seventy five

degrees west longitude.  Brazil also runs between five degrees north latitude

and thirty five degrees south latitude.  Brazil is located in mainly the eastern

part of South America.  This country sits in mostly the southern hemisphere of

the world.  Being completely on the west side of the world, Brazil is not all in

the south side of the world.  With the equator running through north Brazil, a

small portion of Brazil, a small portion of Brazil is in the northern hemisphere.

 Brazil is bordered by a number of South American countries.  Brazil borders

Uruguay to the north; Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru to the east; Bogota

to the southeast; Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana to the south;

and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.


PLACE OF BRAZIL


     The landscape of Brazil is covered with plains, plateaus, and tropical

grasslands.  The plains has a fertile ribbon of lowlands, about ten through

thirty miles wide which are along the country's coastline.  Behind the plains

sits a huge interior plateau that runs steeply near the lowlands in front of it.

This drop forms an escarpment, steep cliff that separates two level areas.  In

Brazil there is much poverty.  People make a living there by subsistence farming.

 Even though they do farming subsistintly, they use much advanced farming there.

Aside from farming there is much more to there culture.  People there are

involved a lot in astronomy and mathematics.  Architecture is another way of

living there.  This used not only as a money making job, but private uses also.


HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION OF BRAZIL


     In the 1500s, the Portuguese colonist built big sugar plantations along

the fertile coastal plain and port cities to ship crops to Europe.  Brazilian

government has been tearing desolate slums, called favelas, down in order to

improve Brazilian cities.  These favelas were replaced with public housing

people could afford.  In 1955, Brazil decided to build a new capital city, 600

miles inland, called Brasilia, in order to decrease the population of This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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