Brazil Current

The Brazil Current is a warm surface ocean current in the Southern Atlantic Ocean and extends along the coast of Brazil in southwestern direction.

The Brazil Current is supplied with water masses that are introduced with the South Equatorial Current of South West Africa across the Atlantic. Another part of the warm equatorial current water flows to the northwest into the Caribbean (Caribbean flow ) continues where it then feeds the Gulf Stream with heat.

Before the mouth of the Río de la Plata in the amount of the 40th southern latitude of the Brazil Current meets the current flowing in a northerly direction cool Falkland current. Both combine to influence the West Wind Drift to an ocean current direction East ( Antarctic Circumpolar Current ) and feed a portion of the cold Benguela current. This current flows northward along the southwest African coast, in turn, feeds the Atlantic South Equatorial Current, thus closing the cycle.