Total Area: Climate:
8,515,770 sq km Mostly tropical, but
Land Area: temperate in south
8,358,140 sq km Terrain:
Water Area: Mostly flat to rolling
157,630 sq km lowlands in north; some
Arable Land Use: plains, hills, mountains,
8.6% and narrow coastal belt
Permanent Crop Land Use: Irrigated Land:
0.8% 54,000 sq km
Total Renewable Water Resources Total Freshwater Withdrawal:
8,233 cu km 74.8 billion cubic meters
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: Natural Hazards:
309 (cubic meter/yr) Recurring droughts in
Environmental Current Issues: north east; floods and
Deforestation in Amazon basin destroys the occasional frost in south
habitat and endangers a multitude of plant Total Labor Force:
and animal species indigenous to the area, 110.4 million
air and water pollution... % of Labor Force in Agriculture:
Agricultural Products: 15.7%
Coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice
corn, sugarcane, cocoa, beef
8,515,770 sq km Mostly tropical, but
Land Area: temperate in south
8,358,140 sq km Terrain:
Water Area: Mostly flat to rolling
157,630 sq km lowlands in north; some
Arable Land Use: plains, hills, mountains,
8.6% and narrow coastal belt
Permanent Crop Land Use: Irrigated Land:
0.8% 54,000 sq km
Total Renewable Water Resources Total Freshwater Withdrawal:
8,233 cu km 74.8 billion cubic meters
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: Natural Hazards:
309 (cubic meter/yr) Recurring droughts in
Environmental Current Issues: north east; floods and
Deforestation in Amazon basin destroys the occasional frost in south
habitat and endangers a multitude of plant Total Labor Force:
and animal species indigenous to the area, 110.4 million
air and water pollution... % of Labor Force in Agriculture:
Agricultural Products: 15.7%
Coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice
corn, sugarcane, cocoa, beef