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The Nation: Its Divisions
The Nation: Its Divisions
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These tightly intertwined factors have been responsible for the appearance of culture areas in Brazil. Each area shares features of basic Brazilian culture, but each area exhibits specific deviations and traditions.
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The North and The South The North includes roughly the area which would fall to the east of a straight line drawn from Belem to Rio de Janeiro. In a general way the characteristics of the North include tradition and adherence to it, and therefore lack of progress in spite of potential.
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The scene of the former rubber boom, which crashed in 1912, the Amazon region, waits for the future. The Dry Northeast includes most of the scrubby semi-desert areas of the northern states lying just below the tropical forest environment.
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It runs from about Rio de Janeiro north to a little above Recife. This coastal
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The industrial zone has its center in Sao Paulo. It is composed principally of a triangle enclosing Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro.
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(See Map 3.) All statistical data gathered and presented by the IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica)
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East -- Sergipe, Bahia, Espirito Santo, Minus Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara*
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Rio de Janeiro Niteroi Teresina IS. Guana bara Rio de Janeiro Fortaleza 16.
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