Brazil

Title	Brazil
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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 the former
capital Rio de ...

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