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Transportation in Brazil

Roads / highways

• Ex JK - to integrate the country
• Advantages: Cheap to install
• Disadvantages: lowest load capacity, highest maintenance cost

Railways / trains

• advantages: high load capacity, low maintenance cost
• desadvantages: high installation cost
• used to exell coffee

Waterways / Boats

• advantages: transporting large loads, usually in containers
• desadvantages: high installation cost

Airway / airplains

• advantages: fastest and has a large load capacity
• desadvantages: expansive

Brazil's population

• absolute population (populous): Numbers of inhabitants
• relative population (populated): number of people divided by Km²
• Birth rate: number of Birth by 1000 inhabitants in 1 year
• Death rate: number of Deaths by 1000 inhabitants
• fertility rate: number of kids by a woman between 15-69 year
• natural growth: difference between birth and death

Brazil Regionalization

Region:

Classify a space according of the criterion.

IBGE

1. 1940: natural features (N, NE, S, C, E)
2. 1970: economical characteristics (N, NE, CW, SE, S)

Milton Santos

• criteria: industrialization and urbanization; demographic density; forested area; population loss; mechanized agriculture
• Regions: Amazon, central-west, Concentrated, northeast,
• diversity in fauna and flora
• High mechanization

Pedro Geiger (1967)

• criteria: historic, economic, occupation of Brazil
• Regions: Central-South, Amazon and Northeast

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