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Das Brasilianische Klima

Aus europäischer Perspektive sind die Jahreszeiten in Brasilien "umgekehrt". Die heißen Sommermonate liegen zwischen Oktober und März, der "Winter" zwischen Juni und August. Obwohl 92 Prozent des Landes in den Tropen liegen, leben über 60 Prozent der Bevölkerung in Gebieten, in denen Höhe, Seewinde oder kalte Polarfronten die Temperatur mäßigen. Brasilien erstreckt sich über fünf verschiedene Klimazonen, eineräquatorialen, einer tropischen, einer feuchttropischen, einer trockentropischen und einer subtropischen Zone. Auf der Hochebene gelegene Städte wie São Paulo, Brasília und Belo Horizonte empfehlen sich durch ein angenehmes Klima von durchschnittlich19 Grad Celsius. In den Küstenstädten Rio de Janeiro, Salvador und Recife dominierte in warmes Klima, das jedoch durch die steten Passatwinde gemildert wird. Das subtropische Klima in den südbrasilianischen Städten Porto Alegre und Curitiba lässt sich mit dem subtropischer Zonen in Europa vergleichen.
Am heißesten ist es im brasilianischen Nordosten, wo in Trockenzeiten zwischen Mai und November häufig Temperaturen von über 38 Grad Celsius gemessen werden. Entlang der Atlantikküste von Recife bis Rio de Janeiro belaufen sich die Durchschnittstemperaturen auf 23 bis 27 Grad Celsius. Südlich von Rio sind die jahreszeitlichen Schwankungen ausgeprägter und die Temperaturunterschiede größer. Die Durchschnittstemperatur beträgt dort zwischen 17 und 19 Grad Celsius.
Durchschnittliche Niederschlagsmenge
Die größte Niederschlagsmenge innerhalb Brasiliens wird um die Amazonasmündung nahe der Stadt Belém sowie am Oberlauf des Amazonas gemessen. Dort betragen die Niederschläge bis zu 3.000 mm pro Jahr. Ein weiteres regenreiches Gebiet liegt am Rande der Gebirgshänge im Bundesstaat São Paulo. Der größte Teil des Landes weist jedoch mäßige Niederschlagsmengen zwischen 1.000 und 1.500 Millimeter pro Jahr auf, die vor allem während der Sommermonate von Dezember bis März fallen. Die Winter sind meist trocken.

Geographie

Brasilien ist das größte Land Lateinamerikas. Es umfaßt mit einem Gebiet von8.547.403,5 Quadratkilometern beinahe die Hälfte (47,3 Prozent) des südamerikanischen Kontinents. Nach der Russischen Föderation, Kanada, China undden Vereinigten Staaten ist es das fünftgrößte Land der Erde.
Brasiliens größte West-Ost-Ausdehnung von 4.319,4 Kilometern entspricht fast seiner größten Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung von 4.394,7 Kilometern. Dies entspricht in Europa etwa der Entfernung vom Nordkap bis Gibraltar oder von der Westspitze der Bretagnebis zum Ural.

Brasilien grenzt an zehn Nachbarstaaten: im Norden an das französischeÜbersee-Département Französisch-Guayana sowie die Länder Surinam, Guayana,Venezuela und Kolumbien; im Süden an Uruguay und Argentinien; im Westen anParaguay, Bolivien und Peru. Ecuador und Chile besitzen als einzige Staaten des südamerikanischen Kontinents keine gemeinsame Grenze mit Brasilien. BrasiliensKüstenlinie entlang des Atlantiks erstreckt sich über eine Länge von 7.367 Kilometern.Mit seinen unmittelbaren Nachbarn verbindet Brasilien eine Grenze von 15.700Kilometern.
Topographie
Brasilien läßt sich grob in zwei Großlandschaften einteilen: Das 4 Millionen Quadratkilometer große Amazonasbecken im Norden und das Hochplateau imZentrum und Süden des Landes mit Durchschnittshöhen von 200 bis 1.000 Metern überdem Meeresspiegel. Vom Süden des Landes in Richtung Nordosten verlaufen hohe Gebirgsketten, die eine Wasserscheide zwischen dem Atlantik und dem Binnenlandbilden. Brasiliens höchster Berg, der Pico da Neblina (3.104 m), liegt in der Serra do Imeri imNorden, nahe der Grenze zu Venezuela.
Die höchsten Berge Brasiliens:
Name Höhe/m Pico da Neblina 3.104 Pico 31 de Março 2.992 Pico da Bandeira 2.889 Pico do Cristal 2.798 Pico das Agulhas Negras 2.787
Flüsse

Hydrographisch wird Brasilien von zwei Stromsystemen bestimmt, dem Amazonas und dem Paraná-Paraguay.

-  Der Amazonas entspringt in den peruanischen Anden, wird ab der brasilianischen Grenzebis zur Einmündung des Rio Negro bei Manaus als Rio Solimões und dann als Amazonas bezeichnet. Er hat ein Einzugsgebiet von insgesamt 7,2 Mio. km2. Bei einer Gesamtlängevon über 6.500 km hat der Amazonas, der nach dem Nil zweitlängste Strom der Erde, über200 größere Nebenflüsse, von denen 15 über 2.000 km lang sind.
Durchschnittlich ist dieser wasserreichste Fluß der Erde 4-5 Kilometer breit, wobei er anseiner schmalsten Stelle (1,8 km) eine Wassertiefe von 100m er-reicht. Stromaufwärts istder Fluß über eine Länge von 3.885 Kilometern beschiffbar.
-  Das Paraná-Paraguay-Flußsystem durchfließt das Gebiet vom südwestlichen Teil des Bundesstaates Minas Gerais in südliche Richtung und erreicht in der Nähe von Buenos Airesüber den Rio de la Plata den Atlantik. Insgesamt erstreckt sich das verzweigte Flußsystemauf eine Länge von 3.700 km. Das Paraná-Paraguay-System wird vom Rio Paraná, demRio Paraguay und dem Rio Uruguay gebildet. Sein Einzugsgebiet umfaßt 4 Mio. km2, vondenen 1,4 km2 auf Brasilien entfallen. Neben den beiden großen Stromsystemen ist der Rio São Francisco mit 2.900 km Längeder größte rein brasilianische Fluß.

Bodenschätze

Brasilien ist reich an Bodenschätzen. Noch immer werden seine Ressourcen systematisch erfaßt. Das Land verfügt über Eisenerzreserven, die sich auf geschätzte 48 Milliarden Tonnen belaufen, von denen 18 Milliarden Tonnen in den Carajás-Bergen(Serra dos Carajás) im Osten des Amazonasgebiets liegen. Die Carajás-Mine produziert seit 1985. Die bereits bekannten Vorkommen reichen aus, den Weltbedarf an Eisen(berechnet auf der Grundlage des heutigen Verbrauchs und des voraussichtlichen Wachstums) über die kommenden 500 Jahre zu decken. Darüber hinaus besitzt Brasilienbereits ausgewiesene Reserven von 208 Millionen Tonnen Mangan, zwei Millionen Tonnen Bauxit sowie 53 Millionen Tonnen Nickel, die sich nach der Entdeckungweiterer Lagerstätten im Staat Goiás auf über 400 Millionen Tonnen belau-fen könnten.Von Bedeutung sind auch die neuesten Funde von hochprozentigem (1,3 %) Uranerz inden Staaten Minas Gerais und Goiás. Brasilien verfügt über Reserven an Kalium,Phosphat, Wolfram, Kassiterit (Zinnstein), Blei, Graphit, Chrom, Gold, Zirkonium (einflexibles Metall mit vielfältigen industriellen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten) sowie über Reserven des seltenen radioaktiven Elementes Thorium. Neunzig Prozent aller Edelsteine der Welt, wie Diamanten, Aquamarine, Topase, Amethyste, Turmaline und Smaragde, werden in Brasilien gefördert.

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Information in Englischer Sprache:

Brazil FAQ's & Infos

How big is Brazil?

How do I get in contact with "live" people from 4starSouthAmerica?

Travel documents

Best travel time

Security

O.k., but what about Mosquitoes and all those tropical dangers?

Is Brazil expensive?

How about tipping?

Language problems?

What kind of money do I need?

Brazil Airpass FAQ's

Payment FAQ's - Reservation Form

More questions?

Get more information from our friends at Embratur Brazilian State Tourism Agency:

How big is Brazil?

Brazil is larger than the 48 contiguous United States! Compare:

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How do I get in contact with "live" people from 4starSouthAmerica?

We are available to take your call live from 6am - 7pm Monday through Friday EST toll-free at 1-866-Go-Suedamerika-Reisen(1-866-464-7827) in North America and from 10am - 7pm Central European Time on +49-711-856-6972. Our virtual storefront is open 24 hours per day, 7 Tage per week. You'll often find us in on a Saturday or Sunday!

At other times our call center will gladly take your message, and we shall reply to you as soon as possible.

And we guarantee to answer your e-mail inquiry within 24-48 hrs, 7 Tage per week (and normally within a couple of hours!)

Should you would like help planning your Brazil trip, please use our contact form and we'll call or email you back.

Together with your travel documents, you'll receive the emergency phone number of our operations office responsible for the tour on which you are booked. Also, a few Tage before you leave for Brazil, we'll give you name, address and mobile phone number of your Tour Director whenever possible, who will be meeting you at the airport in Brazil.

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Travel documents:

US-citizens need a visa, but it can be obtained by mail from your nearest Brazilian consulate. As with most international travel, you'll also require a valid passport. See our visa section for more details.

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Best travel time:

It all depends on what you are expecting!

North of Rio the weather is always warm, and hot December through March.

Rio itself can get cool in July. For a few Tage, the maximum temperature can fall below 20°C. The rainy season is January through March. This does not mean that it rains more often, the rain just brings more water!

São Paulo and the South are much like Southern Europe with the opposite seasons. A bit chilly indeed June through August (with a bit more rain) and quite hot and a bit humid in the Summer (January through March).

The Northeast, of which Salvador is the main city, is warm along the coast year round. Inland the differences between day and night are more accentuated. Hot during the day and cooler at night.

And the Amazon is tropical: Humid and up to 35°C warm, year around, more or less. There is never much time between rainshowers. But then again, those showers, although violent at times, are usually over after an hour.

A special word about the second most popular place in Brazil. When going to Ouro Preto (as on our Gold Route tour), bring a sweater. Due to the high altitude it often gets extremely cool at night, even after a very hot Summer day in January.

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Security:

Is it dangerous to travel to Brazil? There's no easy answer!

Democracy has brought forward many changes. In places where a city regards tourism as serious business, policing has been heightened dramatically.

Ten years ago, group tourism to Brazil, in a manner similar to European tourism, did not exist.

Brazil is changing rapidly, however. It is unwise anywhere to leave valuables lying around or flaunt one's wealth, and the traveler generally does not venture far from the main stay (just as you would avoid certain parts of large U.S. cities.) Brazil can now be regarded as no less "safe" than any region where rich and poor meet. Just be discreet!

Brazil is two countries that co-exist in the same geographical space:

On one hand, Brazil is a highly industrialized country, 9th in the world. Brazil is exporting technology to Japan with its mobile phone-hungry population, its economy is driven by the internet and in the cities, Brazilians get stuck in traffic in their large, snug SUVs on eight lane freeways.

On the other hand, a lot of people have to survive on less than 100 USD per month. This is the third world face of Brazil.

It is only natural that some of the poor would like to redistribute the wealth, somehow.

As much as you know where the places are in your city which you would never go or take other people to, we know Brazil. At 4starSouthAmerica we do not wish to hide anything from you. However, our tours and destinations steer clear of such dangers.

That's also why we decided to offer escorted tours to Brazil. 4starSouthAmerica works only with specially trained, experienced and licensed local guides and tour directors, who'll share their best advice to keep you safe! 

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O.k., but what about Mosquitoes and all those tropical dangers?

4starSouthAmerica tours do not visit places where the World Health Organization or the Brazilian Government requires - vaccinations.

However, we do recommend that if you are heading for the Amazon on our Post-extension Amazon Ariaú Jungle Lodge or for the Pantanal on our Brazilian Exuberance that you contact your doctor regarding prophylactic Malaria medication (and take it, too! Generally 2 weeks prior to departure until one week after leaving the Amazon.) If you are planning on exploring deeper into the rainforest or other unusual places in earnest on you own, please get advice from a specialized hospital or medical center.

The Jungle Lodge is located on the Rio Negro arm of the Amazon, which contains less nutrients for mosquitoes, and therefore attracts fewer!

Still, Brazil is a tropical country. Be prepared, bring or buy repellent and eat only in hygienic places. No fruits from the market unless you can peel them!

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Is Brazil expensive?

Going out to a Brazilian restaurant is quite affordable. Generally, two people need order only one dish. That is plenty! Local drinks (beer, wine, cocktails, soft drinks, and bottled water) cost about half what they do in the U.S. Tap water is safe, but only because it contains a lot of disinfectants. For your tastebuds' sake, ordering water „sem gas" (without gas) is an inexpensive alternative.

When you desire American standards and/or American food, expect prices as you would pay in the U.S. As with anything that is imported, expect to pay more, at times much more!

One nice thing: there is no sales tax to pay. And tips in restaurants should not exceed 10%.

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Oh right, how about tipping?

As just mentioned, restaurant tipping is about 10 %. Otherwise, where you would hand out one dollar, give one Real (that's about 60 cents). You need not tip taxi drivers.

It is customary to tip your highly trained, bilingual tour director about US$3 to $5 pro Person per day, and your coach driver about US$2-$3.

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Language problems?

Yes, but no communication problems. Brazilians are very helpful; they love to practice the little English they know. But do not expect everyone to speak English fluently. Use body language! In larger cities, everybody knows someone who speaks a bit of English, at least. In the more remote areas, Portuguese is best. Spanish, with a bit of patience, is often understood.

Hotels usually carry at least one TV-channel is English (CNN).

Just learn the two magic words:

Please Por favor (easy, isn´t it!)

and

Thank you! Obrigado (if you are a man)

Obrigada (if you are a women), it gets you a lot of friendly smiles.

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What kind of money do I need?

Change some dollars into Real (the Brazilian currency, convert here).Pronounced hey-ow. The plural of Real is Reais (hey-ice!)) upon arrival or in an official money exchange office. Prices are sometimes quoted in dollars, but the actual payment is always done in the local currency. The black market for dollars has virtually disappeared. Bring traveler checks and your credit card/bank card with its PIN code stored in your memory only. ATM's are ubiquitous (almost everywhere!).

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Brazil Airpass FAQ's Please read the information below to learn about the limitations of the various Brazil Airpasses:

Q: Can I buy a Brazil Airpass in Brazil?
A: No, Airpasses may only be purchased outside of Brazil in conjunction with Brazil-bound international tickets.

Q: Does one airpass cover my whole family?
A: No, each person must purchase an airpass.

Q: I am not in the United States. Where can I buy airpasses?
A: Airpasses are available directly from Varig, TAM and Transbrasil in your country.

Q: Can airline employees flying on free space purchase airpasses?
A: No, unfortunately not.

Q: Is the airpass valid on all Brazilian carriers?
A: No, only on the airline issuing the airpass. Varig Airlines allows flights on their affiliate regional carriers RioSul and Nordeste.

Q: Are airpasses refundable?
A: Unused airpasses are fully refundable less handling fees. Partially used airpasses are nonrefundable.

Q: Is the Brazil airpass valid outside of Brazil?
A: Only the Mercosur pass is available outside of Brazil.

Q: Is there a discount for children?
A: No discounts are provided for children using the Brazil airpass.

Q: Are my flights prebooked or am I flying standby?
A: You must schedule your flights when purchasing the airpass, and booked seats are guaranteed. Once ticketed, there will be a penalty fee for changes.

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Payment FAQ's - Reservation Form We accept online or written check, Visa, Mastercard, Discover & American Express for deposit on our tours. Bulk consolidator fares for airlines often can only be paid by check, and must be paid within 5-14 Tage of reservation (depending on airline and fare). We shall notify at the time of reservation. Please let us know at time of booking if you wish to pay by credit card, and we shall try to make special arrangements.

If paying by credit card, we require a credit card authorization form be filled out. Please click here to download a form.
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More questions? Please ask us! There are no silly questions (but everyone is allowed to try!) Just write to contact us or go to our contact us! page and your question might make it into this hit list of frequently asked questions!

Boa viagem!

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