Brazil is located in South America, at the cordinates: Latitude:140 140 degrees S and Longitude: 51 55 degrees W. This country takes up .5 percent of the world. Brazil's ocean border is the South Atlantic Oceant. Its land border countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguy, Peru, Suriname, Urugay and Venezula.
Region
Most of Brazil's terrain is consisted of large hills and steep mountains. The terrain varies from it's mostly flat and rolling lowland to coastlines which consists of numerous beaches. One negative is the deforestation in the Amazon Basin that destroys the habitat and puts lots of plants and different animals at risk for being endangered species. A lot of illegal wildlife trading takes place among the people. Air and water polution and land degradation are also big problems that Brazil faces. Improper mining contributes to the pollution problems.
Place
Brazil has a very hot climate with exotic plants. This countries native and official launguage is Portugese. Brazil's many religions include Roman Catholic, Protestant, Spiritualist, Bantu/Vodoo as well as several others. The Portuguese ruled Brazil for over three centuries until Brazil gained it's independence in 1822.
Movement
Brazil has many traveling opputunities, ranging from transportation by the ground to sky. Some of these oppurtunities are Airports: 1,580,964 km, Heliports: 13 and Railways: 28,538 km. A few more would be the Roadways: 1,580,964 km and Waterways: 50,000 km.
Enviroment
Brazil's enviroments have many different attributes, such as the Amazon Basin. Many different types animal and plant species live in this enviroment. Another Brazilian enviroment is near the Equator, which also has lots of plant and animal species, but not the same ones as in the Amazon Basin.
