Describe the Population Distribution throughout Brazil
...veloped on a higher, cooler, healthier plateau of the Eastern Brazilian heights, resulting in Sao Paulo’s rich soil, the Red Volcanic Tera Rosa. Due to this, Sao Paulo has kept its agricultural population, which continues to farm sugarcane and coffee on a scale of 30,000 tonnes per day of sugarcane. This sugarcane is then sold as export in the form of 40% sugar and 60% ethanol for cars. As you travel further from this area, worthy enough to be classed as a MEDC, you leave the core region and head north-westwards to the periphery. This area has many uninhibited places, and so huge areas of Brazil are left empty which lowers the population density. Where there are small towns and cities are situated, they have very few and limited resources, and so the average population density tends to be anywhere between 0.5 and 4.9. An exception to the theory that the further you move away from the coast, the lower the population density is Para. It is one of the only places to be developed within the inland Brazil. The reason being, is the Grand Carajas Project that has taken out one tenth of Brazil for the extraction of Iron Ore. The surrounding area is 66% iron ore rich, and so many businesses have invested in the project, which cost a total of $2billion. The extraction of the iron ore can go 300m deep, and upto now has only gone 100m deep. In this area though, 18million tonnes of Iron Ore has been extracted and so boosted the economy. The area is now becoming so overwhelmed with migrants looking for jobs in this new found industry that border controls into Carajas have had to be set up. An increased population density has also occurred here, and so the average population density is constantly changing, due to the new found industries and flow of migration from the poorest region, Centre Brazil, to the North. As part of this migration, many people are leaving the favelas situated around the CBD of Sao Paulo and so this helps to balance out the population distribution. Another example of mass migration was the changing of the Capital in 1960 to Brasilia, a virtually uninhabited area. The Government chose this place as it was situated in such a remote region, that they intended to attract people from the coast to the inland, so that there would be a balanced population density, and development of industry in this plateau. This was not the case, as hardly anybody migrated to Brasilia, and even now it only has a population of 1.59million, compared to the huge 16.4million of Sao Paulo. So, along the coast we have regions of very high population den...