Brazilian Highlands

The Brazilian Highlands is located in the east of South America United landscape. It extends approximately in Brazil in the north-south direction parallel to the coast and is bounded to the west at about the 50th degree longitude through the Amazon basin, the Pantanal and the southern Pampas. From the Atlantic coast it is mostly by one to about 300 km wide, steadily increasing lowland strip, where many cities settled (because, for example, Recife, Salvador, Bahia) separately. Only in the southeastern part of Brazil pushes the hill country right up to the coast and leads, for example, in Rio de Janeiro to the pronounced mountainous panoramas with sea (the Corcovado Mountain is 710 m high and is located about three kilometers inland ).

The Brazilian Highlands is a strongly incised by erosion highlands, which lies at an average altitude 305-915 m. Then in turn are accessible via the sea single mountain ranges such as the Serra do Mar, the average heights of about 1200 m. The highest point of the Brazilian highlands is found in the southeastern part of Brazil with the Pico da Bandeira ( 2892 m) located in the Serra de Caparaó the border between the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, which is also the third highest mountain in Brazil. To the north, the height of the capital landscape drops continuously. Thus, the average altitude of the plateau of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, is about 600 m.

In the south-north direction of the São Francisco River flows through almost the entire Brazilian highlands. It is 2900 km long, the fourth longest river in South America and the longest river in Brazil outside the Amazon basin. However, due to its relief energy, the Brazilian highlands is in contrast to the Amazon Basin significantly better for damming of rivers for power generation. The São Francisco has therefore been dammed up in his water-rich underflow at two locations to large reservoirs to supply a portion of the surrounding states and large cities (especially Recife and Salvador ) with clean energy.

• Geography (Brazil )
• Landscape in South America