Answer: Brazil is the most industrialised country of South America.
- The main industrial region is the south-east, in the triangle of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, where capital, skilled labour, power and transport are available.
- Iron and steel industries are located near the iron-ore mines of Minas Gerais, for example at Volta Redonda.
- Automobile, machinery, electrical goods and aircraft industries are centred at Sao Paulo and Sao Jose dos Campos.
- Petrochemicals and chemicals are produced at Camacari in Bahia, and cement, glass, paper, pulp, textiles, footwear, food processing and sugar industries are widespread.
- Shipbuilding is carried on at Rio de Janeiro, and hydro-electricity from the Parana and Sao Francisco rivers supplies power to industry.
- Brazil exports iron and steel, automobiles, aircraft, machinery, chemicals and food products, and its industries provide employment to a large number of people.