The international geography . rado)in the Guiana mountains. Gold was, however, first discovered in SaoPaulo in 1560. Up to the middle of the eighteenth century gold anddiamonds were found and worked in the province of Minas, which wasnamed from the fact. Coffee was introduced in the plantations of Rio deJaneiro and the south of Sao Paulo in 1761. From the remarkableprosperity of this crop Rio de Janeiro became the economic centre ofBrazil, and now coffee is the staple production of the country as far asexport is concerned, the railway system having been largely developed inorder to provide com
The international geography . rado)in the Guiana mountains. Gold was, however, first discovered in SaoPaulo in 1560. Up to the middle of the eighteenth century gold anddiamonds were found and worked in the province of Minas, which wasnamed from the fact. Coffee was introduced in the plantations of Rio deJaneiro and the south of Sao Paulo in 1761. From the remarkableprosperity of this crop Rio de Janeiro became the economic centre ofBrazil, and now coffee is the staple production of the country as far asexport is concerned, the railway system having been largely developed inorder to provide communication between the plantations and the , collected on the Amazon from wild trees, is also of greatimportance. The trade of Brazil is mainly carried on with the UnitedKingdom, the United States, Portugal, Germany and France. Mostimports are subject to a very high tariff. Natural Regions and Political Divisions.—The twenty-oneStates or main divisions of Brazil correspond to a great extent with natural. Fig. 425.—T/te BrazilianFlag. Brazil 873 regions, and can easily be considered in six natural groups : (i) The valleyof the river Amazon is now divided into two States, the lower part form-ing Para, the upper Amazonas. (ii) South of these the lands which slopeup from the Amazon plain to the plateau, forming all the vast westernhinterland, belong to the State of Matto Grosso, and the heart and hydro-graphic centre ol the Brazilian Island is the State of Goyaz. (iii) Alongthe north-eastern coast and stretching inland from it the comparativelysmall States of Maranhao (part of which is a continuation of the Amazonand Tocantins plain), Piauhi, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Parahiba,Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Sergipe, succeed one another from north-westto south-east, (iv) The two large central States of Bahia and Minas Geraesoccupy the valley of the Sao Francisco and other rivers draining to theAtlantic. In these the mining and industrial activity of historical a
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