The Rough Guide to Brazil
Brazilians often say they live in a continent rather than a
country,and that's an excusable exaggeration. The
landmass is bigger than the USA if you exclude
Alaska; the journey from Recife in the east to the western
border with Peru is longer than that from London to
Moscow, and the distance between the northern and
southern borders is about the same as that between NY & LA. Brazil has no mountains as such
, but in every...