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Regions
Brazil is divided in 5 ecosystem, each one with its own characteristics - North - Then Amazonia Rain Forest – with high humidity and a rich animal environment
- Northeast - temperature is about the same around all year, beautiful beaches with warm water. Rich plantations of sugar cane, historical areas and caves from the dinosaur era
- Central West – small variance of temperature around the year. Place for large plantations of Soya and cattle farms. Mixed with the Pantanal environment, a vast tropical ecoregion.
- Southeast – Region with the states of Minas Gerais – historical cities and coffee farms. Rio de Janeiro with the famous beaches, covered with the Atlântica forest, old coffee farms. São Paulo with reach hotel infra structure and variety of old coffee farms, cattle and horse farms
- South - very well defined climate. Famous by cattle and horse farms.
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South Region
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Area: 577.214 km² (6,2%) Climate: Temperate in almost all the entire region, warm in the summer and cold in the winter (sometimes there is snow in the southern regions of the region). The northeast part of the region has a Tropical climate, being hot in the summer and warm/cool during the winter, with some cold days. States: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina Largest Cities: Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Londrina, Joinville, Caxias do Sul, Florianópolis, Pelotas, Canoas, Maringá, Ponta Grossa, Blumenau, Cascavel, Foz do Iguaçu, Santa Maria, Rio Grande Economy: Machinery and automobile industry, textiles, tourism, energy production, computer programming, soil, orange, apple, grapefruit. Vegetation: Rainforests along the coast (Mata Atlântica), tropical semiciduous in the north and west (Araucárias) and prairie-like vegetation in the south (Pampas). Little native vegetation still actually remains
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Southeast Region
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Area: 927.286 km² (12%) Climate: tropical in the northwest (warm, relatively dry in the winter and wet in the summer); Semi-arid in the north; Temperate in the south States: Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo Largest Cities: São Paulo; Rio de Janeiro; Belo Horizonte; Guarulhos; Campinas; Nova Iguaçu; São Goncalo; Duque de Caxias; São Bernardo do Campo; Osasco; Santo André; Contagem; São José dos Campos; Ribeirão Preto; Uberlândia; Sorocaba; Niterói; Juiz de Fora; Santos, Vila Velha, Jundiaí, Bauru, Vitória Economy: Machine and electronic manufacturing, automobile and aviation industry, coffee, soil, sugar cane, tourism, oil&sub-products (gasoline, diesel, etc), textiles, energy production (not sufficient, however, to attend its demand); it is the business-economic center of Brazil, most bigger Brazilians companies and foreign companies installed in Brazil have their headquarters installed in this region Vegetation: Mainly tropical-like semideciduous forests (Mata Atlântica), semi-arid in the north, with almost no vegetation, savanna-like vegetation in the west and in the northwest (cerrado).
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