Big Brazil (by Joe)
Allow me to state the obvious: Brazil is massive.
At just over 8.5 million square km (3.2 million square miles) it is the world´s 5th largest country after Russia, Canada, United States and China. Brazil is almost 1 million square kilometres bigger than Australia and over twice the size of India (6th and 7th largest respectively).
It stretches some 4,300 km across South America, has over 7000 km of coastline and it takes over three days to travel from north to south by express coach.
And the Amazon basin, which covers a full one-third of the country remains - despite continued encroachment - one of the world´s vastest unexplored wildernesses. It is fact there are indigenous tribes in the Amazon which live in such remote areas that they remain entirely un-contacted by the developed world.
Just consider that for a moment - there are people there who, despite 400 years of colonisation in South America, remain wholly oblivious to mankind´s incredible achievements in science, technology, medicine, transport, civilization and communications.
Indeed, senior anthropologists go as far as to claim that, outside certain areas of mid-west United States, these may be the only people on the planet unaware that Man U reclaimed the Premiership.
I say: spread the word.
Joe
At just over 8.5 million square km (3.2 million square miles) it is the world´s 5th largest country after Russia, Canada, United States and China. Brazil is almost 1 million square kilometres bigger than Australia and over twice the size of India (6th and 7th largest respectively).
It stretches some 4,300 km across South America, has over 7000 km of coastline and it takes over three days to travel from north to south by express coach.
And the Amazon basin, which covers a full one-third of the country remains - despite continued encroachment - one of the world´s vastest unexplored wildernesses. It is fact there are indigenous tribes in the Amazon which live in such remote areas that they remain entirely un-contacted by the developed world.
Just consider that for a moment - there are people there who, despite 400 years of colonisation in South America, remain wholly oblivious to mankind´s incredible achievements in science, technology, medicine, transport, civilization and communications.
Indeed, senior anthropologists go as far as to claim that, outside certain areas of mid-west United States, these may be the only people on the planet unaware that Man U reclaimed the Premiership.
I say: spread the word.
Joe
posted by Joe and Laura at 3:15 pm
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