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	Brazil - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Brazil has the world's second largest Christian population (151 million, behind that of the United States), and also is the world's largest Roman Catholic-majority nation in terms of both number of adherents and land mass --- a strong cultural legacy left behind by the Roman Catholic Portuguese colonists.
		Brazil is characterized by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north and a more open terrain of hills and low mountains to the south — home to most of the Brazilian population and its agricultural base.
		Brazil's population is mostly concentrated along the coast, with a lower population density in the interior.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Brazil (4455 words)

	BRAZIL - Land
		Brazil's greatest width, 2,684 miles (4,319.4 km), is almost the same as its greatest distance from north to south, 2,731 miles (4,394.7 km).
		Brazil's most intense rainfall is found around the mouth of the Amazon River near the city of Belém, and also in the vast upper regions of Amazônia where more than 78 inches (2,000 millimeters) of rain falls every year.
		Brazil possesses reserves of potassium, phosphate, uranium (an element used for hardening steel), cassiterite (the chief source of tin), lead, graphite, chrome, gold, zirconium (a strong ductile metallic element with many industrial uses), and thorium.
	www.un.int /brazil/brasil/brazil-land.htm (1952 words)

	World InfoZone - Brazil Information - Page 1
		The flora and fauna of Brazil are as diverse as its geography.
		Brazil has the highest number of species of primates, amphibians and plants in the world, and is in the top five in the world for number of birds and reptile species.
		The population of Brazil was 186,112,794 in 2005.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=Brazil (1357 words)

	Brazil Geography
		The largest river system in Brazil is the Amazon, which originates in the Andes and receives tributaries from a basin that covers 45.7 percent of the country, principally the north and west.
		Although 90 percent of the country is within the tropical zone, the climate of Brazil varies considerably from the mostly tropical North (the equator traverses the mouth of the Amazon) to temperate zones below the Tropic of Capricorn (23°27' S latitude), which crosses the country at the latitude of the city of São Paulo.
		Most of Brazil has moderate rainfall of between 1,000 and 1,500 millimeters a year, with most of the rain falling in the summer (between December and April) south of the Equator.
	www.nationbynation.com /Brazil/Geo.html (947 words)

	Brazil - Introduction
		Brazil shares a border with almost every other country in South America--only Chile and Ecuador are untouched--and covers almost half the continent.
		Despite its vast expanse of territory, Brazil's population is concentrated in the major cities of its coast.
		Almost half of Brazil's territory is covered by the basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries, a region that is one of the world's largest rainforest ecologies.
	www.geographia.com /brazil (367 words)

	EcoBrazil.com - Brazil Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country, occupying almost half of the South American continent and bordering every country in it except for Chile and Ecuador.
		Much of Brazil is scarcely populated, although some regions with previously low population densities, such as the Amazon, are being rapidly settled.
		The richness and diversity of Brazil's fauna is astounding, and the country ranks first in the world for numbers of species of primates, amphibians and plants; third for bird species; and fourth for species of butterflies and reptiles.
	www.ecobrazil.com /countryinfo.asp (529 words)

	LAB : Brazil : Geography
		Brazil is the world's largest producer of coffee and the second largest producer of soya beans and sugarcane.
		Central Brazil is a plateau of open plains with twisted trees and acid soils (cerrados).
		Brazil's most mountainous regions are the central states of Minas Gerais and the southern state of Santa Catarina.
	www.latinamericabureau.org /?lid=545 (375 words)

	BRAZIL
		Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil or República Federativa do Brasil, IPA: [ʁe'publikɐ fedeɾa'tʃivɐ du bɾa'ziw]), is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world in both area and population.
		In 1808, Queen Maria I of Portugal and her son and regent, the future João VI of Portugal, fleeing from Napoleon, relocated to Brazil with the royal family, nobles and government.
		Brazil is characterized by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north and a more open terrain of hills and low mountains to the south — home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base.
	www.solarnavigator.net /geography/brazil.htm (1515 words)

	The Physical Geography of Brazil
		Brazil is a huge country and as with most huge countries covers a lot of land and has a varied physical geography.
		Brazil is so large that it in fact borders every single South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
		The physical geography of the region is characterised by forests, woods and scrubland.
	www.kwintessential.co.uk /country/brazil/geography-of-brazil.html (431 words)

	Geography of Brazil - Geographic Regions, The Environment, Climate
		In Brazil public policies regarding the environment are generally advanced, although their implementation and the enforcement of environmental laws have been far from ideal.
		Brazil achieved significant institutional advances in environmental policy design and implementation after the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1972.
		One of its main tasks was to prepare Agenda 21 (a plan for the twenty-first century) for Brazil and to stimulate preparation of state and local agendas.
	worldfacts.us /Brazil-geography.htm (3490 words)

	Brazil - Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The time zone of the capital (Brasília) and of the most populated part of Brazil along the east coast is two hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, except when it is on its own daylight savings time, from October to February.
		Brazil possesses the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, located 350 kilometers northeast of its "horn," and several small islands and atolls in the Atlantic--Abrolhos, Atol das Rocas, Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo, Trindade, and Martim Vaz.
		In the early 1970s, Brazil claimed a territorial sea extending 362 kilometers from the country's shores, including those of the islands.
	countrystudies.us /brazil/20.htm (283 words)

	Geography of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brazil is bordered by the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
		Brazil's tropical soils produce 70 million tons of grain crops per year, but this output is attributed more to their extension than their fertility.
		Although 90% of the country is within the tropical zone, the climate of Brazil varies considerably from the mostly tropical North (the equator traverses the mouth of the Amazon) to temperate zones below the Tropic of Capricorn (23°27' S latitude), which crosses the country at the latitude of the city of São Paulo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Brazil (5925 words)

	Brazil Tours \| Brazil Tour Guide \| iExplore.com
		Brazil is South America's biggest and most influential country and takes up almost half the continent.
		Two-thirds of Brazil’s population lives near the coast, meaning that life is a beach for locals and tourists alike.
		Brazil covers almost half of the South American continent and it is bordered to the north, west and south by all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador; to the east is the Atlantic.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Brazil/Overview (547 words)

	ecobrazil.com - Brazilian Geography
		The fifth largest country in the world, Brazil occupies the lion's share of the land mass of the South American continent.
		Brazil is even larger than the US if we exclude Alaska.
		Brazil's geography is divided in four distinct regions:
	www.ecobrazil.com /web/geo.asp (437 words)

	Texas A&M University - About the Study Abroad Programs Office
		Barreiras is one of Brazil’s leading areas of frontier agriculture, specializing in soybeans, cotton, and irrigated coffee, and we will tour the region’s farms, native savanna (Cerrado) vegetation, and rivers.
		The historical geography of Brazil is well illustrated by visiting Salvador, Brazil’s colonial core region, where slave-based sugarcane production generated a major urban center.
		Brazil’s dilemmas of unequal development are illustrated by visiting the very poor regions surrounding Jauzeiro, where social-economic indicators are among the country’s lowest.
	studyabroad.tamu.edu /programs/brazil_geog.asp (516 words)

	Brazil - Kay's AS & A2 Geography
		Brazil's Ministry of External Relations provides summaries on a variety of topics including social housing, education, family planning, tourism, the rainforest, the four-year plan and a variety of regions and states.
		A minimum of 10% of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is to be set aside in an effort to preserve the region's extensive biodiversity.
		Under discussion will be important global environmental problems, for example, all kinds of pollution, climate change, the depletion of the ozone layer, the usage and management of ocean and fresh water resources, excessive deforestation, desertification and land degradation, hazardous waste, and depleting biological diversity.
	www.geography.btinternet.co.uk /brazil.htm (1478 words)

	Brazil Travel News and 4**** Tours - Geography
		Brazil's twenty-six states and the Federal District (Distrito Federal) are divided conventionally into five regions:
		However, its share of Brazil's total had grown rapidly in the 1970s and early 1980s as a result of interregional migration, as well as high rates of natural increase.
		In the early 1980s, 33.6 percent of the region had been altered by anthropic activities, with a low of 9.3 percent in Mato Grosso and a high of 72.9 percent in Goiás (not including Tocantins).
	braziltravelnews.com /geography.html (1472 words)

	Brazil: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Brazil may be divided into the Brazilian Highlands, or plateau, in the south and the Amazon River Basin in the north.
		Southern Brazil is drained by the Plata system—the Paraguay, Uruguay, and Paraná; rivers.
		Although a republic was proclaimed, Brazil was ruled by military dictatorships until a revolt permitted a gradual return to stability under civilian presidents.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107357.html (1264 words)

	Brazil - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		LOCATION and GEOGRAPHY: Brazil is located in East Central South America and occupies nearly 50% of the South American Continent.
		It is bound by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana to the north, Colombia to the northwest, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay to the west, Argentina to the southwest, Uruguay to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
		The geography of the country divides it into four climatic regions, (1.) the Amazon basin which has no dry season and is typically tropical.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/brazil.htm (1737 words)

	HLAS 53 Geography Brazil
		THE PREDOMINANT GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE ON BRAZIL for this HLAS volume focuses on Amazonian topics ranging from deforestation and government policies to mineral extraction, settlement and planning, and the internationalization of scientific research.
		Brazil is rapidly modernizing its agricultural base, a development that has profound socioeconomic implications.
		Also of use are a directory of national environmental institutes (item bi 92003389), a regional approach to ecological strategies (item bi 91025191), and the proceedings from an international conference on the Pantanal (item bi 91005407).
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/ss53geog-muller.html (953 words)

	HLAS 51 Geography Brazil
		Trends in the modernization of the farming sector are described by Delgado (item bi 91003782), Martine and Garcia (item bi 91003918), and Brandao (item bi 91003903), while the impact of different types of farming are examined in monographs by Moura (item bi 91003922) and Loureiro (items bi 88001829 and bi 91003917).
		The cities of Brazil, as in most of the Third World, are rapidly expanding in number, size, area, and structure.
		As Brazil's metropolitan regions evolve and begin to resemble patterns in developed countries, the long-held view of the suburbs as the city of the poor is being challenged (e.g., items bi 91004066 and bi 88001036).
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/ss51geog-hiraoka.html (1188 words)

	Brazil General Information - Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From the Amazon basin in the north and west to the Brazilian Highlands in the southeast, Brazil's topography is quite diverse.
		Almost all of Brazil is humid as well as either has a tropical or subtropical climate.
		There is little seismic or volcanic activity due to Brazil's position near the center of the South American Plate.
	www.southernhorizons.com /Brazil_Geo.htm (303 words)

	History and Geography of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brazil was a major exporter of sugar, brazilwood (which was used to make dyes and paints), gold, diamonds, rubber, and coffee which remains one of the country's major export and source of income.
		When Brazil was the largest producer of sugar in the 17th century, many African slaves were sent there to assist in the sugar cane plantations.
		Brazil, the largest and also the most populous country in South America, became the leading economic power of South America during this decade.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Project2002/MeghanD/pgone.html (817 words)

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