Location


 * Rio is located on the eastern south border of Brazil, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.**
 * Located on the 10 00 S, 55 00 W, the total land area is 8,511,965 sq km. Of that 8,456,510 sq km of it is land and 55,455 sq km is water.**
 * The terrain is mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north, some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt. Only 6.96% is arable land, natural hazzards include droughts towars the northeast and floods in the south.Along with that deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers plant and animal species indigenous to the area.**


 * The area of Rio follows utline of the Mmultiple Nuclei Model by Harris and Ullman. The central business is in the center of the city with the high rising and middle class communitites surrounding the CBD. The industrial sectors have small connections to the CBD and as the grow further from the CBD the get larger. Beyond the middle and high class residentials lie the Favels(slums) and the poor quality housing.**