why population density of Brazil is low
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The fact lies behind this is very genuine.
The availability of various amenities and resources concentrated on costalines .And here people are well distributed.This is the main reason to be a low population density on over all Brazil.
Why does Brazil have low population despite being so big? How does Brazil's geographically play a role in this?
Most of Brazil’s coastal areas have a fairly high population density, especially in the Southeastern and Northeastern regions, but the huge countryside tends to be far less inhabited.
This divergence has historical reasons:
Brazil was colonized by Portuguese settlers starting on the 16th century. These settlers tended to have rough relations with the native inhabitants, which were divided into 2 main groups: the Tupi-Guarani and the Macro-Jê.
The Tupi were, in general, slightly more friendly and lived near the coast and big bodies of water, such as the Amazon River, whereas the Jê tended to be more aggresive and lived mostly on the countryside’s plateaus. Together with the necessity to maintain a steady supply line with Portugal and the sheer lack of reasons to delve deeper into the mainland, the Portuguese postponed most expeditions to the countryside until the 17th century.
Even then, most of the countryside simply lacked something interesting enough to attract more settlers from Europe, so, with the exception of Minas Gerais (in the 17th and 18th century) and São Paulo (19th century) they remained mostly indigenous territory until the Brazilian government decided to provide incentives to move people closer to the official borders and effectively occupy them. This rationale gained momentum once Brazil’s politicians realized that, if they did not populate the borders, someone would do it for them and the country would risk eventually losing part of its territory, be it to Argentina, Paraguay, or any other neighbor.
Even then, that’s only the late 19th century we’re talking about. In some regions, even later. The city I was raised in, for instance, is located in Western Paraná. It did not exist until the mid 1930s and was only recognized as a city proper in 1951.
It is also worth noticing that a considerable number of Amerindians that lived on the countryside perished even before they had any contact with the Portuguese settlers, since European diseases found them before the Europeans themselves. This fact alone was enough to depopulate the countryside prior to the arrival of fresh migration waves, although the waves themselves resulted in a significant amount of bloodshed, bringing most Brazilian tribes close to extinction.
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