"Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is the continent's largest nation. It extends 2,965 miles
(4,772 km) north-south, 2,691 miles (4,331 km) east-west, and borders every nation on the continent except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil may be
divided into the Brazilian Highlands, or plateau, in the south and the Amazon River Basin in the north. More than a third of Brazil is drained by the
Amazon and its more than 200 tributaries.The
Amazon is navigable for ocean steamers to Iquitos, Peru, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) upstream. Southern Brazil is drained by the Plata system—the
Paraguay, Uruguay, and Paraná Rivers. The most important stream entirely within Brazil is the São Francisco, navigable for 1,000 miles (1,903 km),
but broken near its mouth by the 275-foot (84 m) Paulo Afonso Falls."
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