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Brazilian law of the sea

1973; UFU Faculty of Law Magazine; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2318-8235.v68i1p71-90

2318-8235

Vicente Marotta Rangel,

Law, logistics, and international trade

Brazil occupies almost one half of the whole South American continent and is the fourth largest country in the world in terms of non-interrupted land surface. 1 The Brazilian coastline is commensurate with this: for every 1.3 kilometers of land frontier there is one kilometer of sea.The coastline has a lengh of 9.200 kilometers divided into five regions going from north to sourth as follows: (1) Amazonian or Equatorial coast, from the mouth of the Oiapoque River to the Eastern Maranhão; (2) the Northeast coast, sometimes known as the barrier coast, as far as Bahia; (3) the Eastern coast to south of Espírito Santo; (4) the Southeast coast, also known as the Crystal Clear Cliffs, as far * O presente estudo foi apresentado ao Grupo Interamericano de Estudos Jurídicos da Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, e se integra em conjunto de pesquisas cujos resultados serão publicados brevemente pela mesma instituição.1.The country has an extension of 8.513.844square kilometers of non-interrupted lands.For an introduction to the human and physical characteristics of Brazil, PIERRE DEFFQNTAÍNES, Geografia Humana do Brasil.Second EdiUon.Rio,