The Amazon
The Amazon, being in a tropical environment, is ideal for growing crops like cane sugar, okra, and papaya, while also having a plentiful supply of wood and with that rubber, for the map below shows that in the west and around the Amazon rubber is plentiful as well as Brazil nuts. Tropical plants are also able to provide pharmaceuticals. The "Lungs of the Earth," the Amazon produces about 20% of the world's oxygen through its plentiful vegetation. However, as will be seen in Environmental Issues, about 20% of the Amazon has been destroyed. First under the native people who had been there for millennia, the region was taken over by the more modernized Portuguese explorers and Jesuits.
Agriculture
As can be seen on the map below, much of the agricultural diversity is located in Southern Brazil, where rice, coffee, cotton, and some sugarcane are grown. This is due to the great climate and large agricultural workforce that has been available since the large Italian immigration of the late 1800s. This great climate for agricultural production and growing workforce relates to the economic concepts of labor demand and labor supply, which was especially more important when slavery was abolished and Brazil needed more agricultural workers. Because the west is less densely populated it is used for more cattle ranching which requires more space.
Minerals
As can be seen below, there are great quantities of diamonds, iron, quartz, coal, and also deposits of petroleum in Brazil and off its coast in the case of petroleum. This means that Brazil can become more self-sufficient in its resources. These resources represent the resource market of the flow of money, resources, and goods/services, as these resources will help create goods and services. We can also see that the region of Minas Gerais still has some diamonds left in it and is also near a cattle region.