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English: S. Augustus Mitchell was born in Connecticut in 1790 and became a teacher. He found the materials available in early 19th-century America for teaching geography inadequate and, after moving to Philadelphia in 1829 or 1830, formed a company that soon was producing improved maps, atlases, tourist guides, and geography textbooks.
The first treaty of limits between Brazil and Bolivia was signed in 1867, without properly knowing the geographical location of rivers in the Amazon Basin; so much so that one of his articles established the boundary line out of the Madeira River, a parallel west to the headwaters of the Javari River - setting even if those sources were north of the parallel (what actually happened), the line ...
This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID g5400.br000024 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work.
A monument on the Brazilian side of the tripoint of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the exact tripoint is in the water) With 10 bordering countries forming a single incomplete ring around Brazil, the borders of Brazil include 9 triple points (also called tripoints) in which the borders of three countries join at a single point. A few of the ...
The Treaty of Ayacucho was an agreement between the Empire of Brazil and Bolivia signed in 1867. [1] It assigned the land of Acre (now a state in Brazil) to Bolivia in exchange for 102,400 square kilometers of territory further north then annexed to the Brazilian state of Amazonas . [ 2 ]
Distinct Land Borders: Refers to the number of separate geographic boundaries a country shares with its neighbors. A single country may have multiple distinct land borders with the same neighbour (e.g., due to enclaves, exclaves, or disconnected regions). Distinct Land Neighbours: Refers to the number of unique countries a nation borders via land.
An enlargeable topographic map of Bolivia. Geography of Bolivia. Bolivia is: a landlocked country; Location: Southern Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere. South America; Time zone: UTC-04; Extreme points of Bolivia High: Nevado Sajama 6,542 m (21,463 ft) Low: Rio Paraguay 90 m (295 ft) Land boundaries: 6,940 km Brazil 3,423 km Peru 1,075 km Chile 860 km
Visa requirements for Brazilian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Brazil. As of 2025, Brazilian citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 171 countries and territories, ranking the Brazilian passport 18th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index .