Brazil topographic maps
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São Paulo
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana de São Paulo > São Paulo
São Paulo is in Southeastern Brazil, in southeastern São Paulo State, approximately halfway between Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. The city is on a plateau placed beyond the Serra do Mar (Portuguese for "Sea Range" or "Coastal Range"), itself a component of the vast region known as the Brazilian Highlands,…
Average elevation: 785 m
Boituva
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana de Sorocaba
Boituva is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba. The population is 62,170 (2020 est.) in an area of 248.97 km2. The elevation is 637 metres.
Average elevation: 565 m
Tiradentes
Tiradentes is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is located at 21°06′37″S 44°12′41″W / 21.11028°S 44.21139°W / -21.11028; -44.21139, has an area of 83.5 km2 (32.2 sq mi), and a maximum elevation above sea level of 927 m. Tiradentes had an estimated population of…
Average elevation: 970 m
SIA
Brazil > Federal District > Região Integrada de Desenvolvimento do Distrito Federal e Entorno
Average elevation: 1,108 m
Santa Maria
Brazil > Piauí > Região Integrada de Desenvolvimento da Grande Teresina > Teresina > Res. Francisca Trindade
Average elevation: 74 m
Brasília
Brazil > Federal District > Região Integrada de Desenvolvimento do Distrito Federal e Entorno
The city sits at an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and more, high on the Brazilian Highlands in the country's center-western region. Paranoá Lake, a large artificial lake, was built to increase the amount of water available and to maintain the region's humidity. It has a marina, and hosts wakeboarders…
Average elevation: 1,084 m
Matão
Matão is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. As of 2020, the town had an estimated population of 83,626 and a population density of 146.3 persons per km2. The total area the city is 524.899 square kilometres (202.665 sq mi). Matão sits at an elevation of 585 metres (1,919 ft). The…
Average elevation: 601 m
Diamantina
Diamantina is located 292 kilometers almost directly north of the state capital, Belo Horizonte, in a mountainous area. The elevation of the municipal seat is 1,114 meters. The Jequitinhonha River, one of Brazil's most important rivers, flows to the east of the municipal seat. Diamantina is linked to the state…
Average elevation: 915 m
Lagoinha
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana do Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte > Lagoinha
Average elevation: 912 m
Santos Dumont
Santos Dumont (formerly known as Palmira) is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population (2020) is estimated to be 46,421 and the total area of the municipality is 639.1 km2 (246.8 sq mi). It lies at an elevation of 839 m (2,753 ft) just off the main interstate highway, BR040, between…
Average elevation: 864 m
Morro do Pico Agudo
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana do Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte > Paraibuna
Average elevation: 1,056 m
São Bernardo do Campo
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana de São Paulo
São Bernardo do Campo is located in the top of the Serra do Mar, on the Atlantic plateau. It occupies an area of 407.1 square kilometre. The altitude varies from a low of 60 meters above sea level at the foot of the mountain range where Rio Passareúva with the Rio Pilões rivers meet, to 986.5 meters at the…
Average elevation: 665 m
Praça Barão do Rio Branco
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana do Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte > Jacareí
Average elevation: 581 m
Juiz de Fora
Although lying within tropical latitudes the climate is relatively mild. The altitude of 700 to 900 m (2,300 to 3,000 ft) makes the weather usually cooler and rainier than the lower surrounding areas. Under the Köppen climate classification Juiz de Fora's climate is classified as a humid subtropical climate…
Average elevation: 675 m
Morada Nova de Minas
Morada Nova de Minas belongs to the statistical micro-region of Três Marias. It is located at an elevation of 594 meters on the banks of the Três Marias Dam, which dams up the São Francisco River. Neighboring municipalities are.
Average elevation: 672 m
Lavras
Lavras is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Located at an altitude of 919 m, it has a population of 104,761 inhabitants (2022). The area of the municipality is 564.495 km2. The average annual temperature is 19.6°C and the average annual rainfall is 1,511 millimetres.
Average elevation: 902 m
Brumado
Brumado (Portuguese: [bɾuˈma.du] ) is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of Bahia, in the Northeast region of the country, precisely in the Center-South mesoregion of the State, in the homonymous microregion to the do municipality name, to the do 555 kilometers from Salvador, state capital. Its…
Average elevation: 563 m
Amazon River
During what many archaeologists called the formative stage, Amazonian societies were deeply involved in the emergence of South America's highland agrarian systems. The trade with Andean civilizations in the terrains of the headwaters in the Andes formed an essential contribution to the social and religious…
Average elevation: 4 m
Nova Petrópolis
Nova Petrópolis is a municipality in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The main seat of the municipality is also called Nova Petrópolis. It is located in the Serra Gaúcha region, at 29º22'35" South, 51º06'52" West, about 90 km (56 mi) north of Porto Alegre, the state capital city. Nova…
Average elevation: 419 m
São Francisco Xavier
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro > Rio de Janeiro
Average elevation: 35 m
Campos Novos
Campos Novos is divided into eight districts: the Seat, Bela Vista, Dal Pai, Espinilho, Encruzilhada, Guarani, Ibicuí, and Leão. The Seat was the most populous, with 23,359 inhabitants. The 20th century saw the creation and elevation of several municipal districts to city status, with the last territorial…
Average elevation: 823 m
Campos Altos
Campos Altos is located at an elevation of 1,050 m (3,440 ft), 85 km (53 mi) east of Araxá on highway BR-216. The distance to the state capital, Belo Horizonte, is 264 km (164 mi). Neighboring municipalities are: Rio Paranaíba (N), São Gotardo (NE), Santa Rosa da Serra (E), Córrego Danta, (SE) Tapiraí…
Average elevation: 1,036 m
Bento Gonçalves
The average elevation of Bento Gonçalves is 690 meters above the sea level.
Average elevation: 489 m
Mirassolândia
Brazil > São Paulo > Região Metropolitana de São José do Rio Preto
Average elevation: 495 m
Sapucaia do Sul
Brazil > Rio Grande do Sul > Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre
Average elevation: 30 m
Bambuí
The city center of Bambuí is located at an elevation of 706 meters on a plateau and straddles the 20th parallel. Neighboring municipalities are: Tapiraí and Córrego Danta (N), Luz (NE), Iguatama (E), Doresópolis (SE), Piumhi (S), São Roque de Minas and Medeiros (W).
Average elevation: 739 m
Alto Paraíso de Goiás
The history of Alto Paraíso dates back to the middle of the 18th century, when a cattle ranch was set up by Francisco de Almeida. He called the region Veadeiros (related to deer). The first settlers raised cattle and wheat, due to high altitude and colder climate. In 1938, Veadeiros appeared as a district of…
Average elevation: 867 m
Lins de Vasconcelos
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro > Rio de Janeiro
Average elevation: 128 m
Itajubá
Itajubá is a municipality in southeastern Minas Gerais state of the Federative Republic of Brazil. It lies in a valley by the Sapucaí river and has terrain elevations ranging from 827 to 1500 metres, occupying an area of 290.45 km2 (112.14 mi2), with a population of 97,334 people (2020 est). Neighboring the…
Average elevation: 1,049 m
Passo Fundo
Lying near latitude 28° South at an elevation of 690 m (2,260 ft), Passo Fundo has a humid subtropical climate. The annual mean temperature is 17.7 °C (63.9 °F) with highs of 28.4 °C (83.1 °F) in January and 18.3 °C (64.9 °F) in July and lows of 17.7 °C (63.9 °F) in January and 8.8 °C (47.8 °F) in…
Average elevation: 618 m
Paraíba
Paraíba, located in the eastern portion of the broader Northeast region, is one of 27 states of Brazil. Its total area is 56,467.242 km2, making it the seventh smallest state in the country and the fourth smallest in the Northeast. The distance between its north and south extremities is 263 kilometers, and…
Average elevation: 310 m
