The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-27

| Stray corners of BraZiPs ramb.
ling backlands are being marked
off into Federal territories. There
are now eight territories, most OF
them created by the present Var
gas government. The number OF
Brazilian States stands at twenty,
as the new territories have been
carved out of existing states, says
the National Geographic Society.
Six states have had Their. areas
reduced in the redraWing of bound
aries, but most of the new terri
torial land was sliced out OF
Amazonas, Mato Crosse, an d
Para-three states that made up
more than half of Brazil. Mato
Crosse alone gave up land to
form all or parts of three new d.
visions.
If travel were possible, sight
see: wishing to do the territor-
les might start at the Uruguayan
border in the south and go clock
wise around BraziPs inland 'front.'
Ter. He would come first to the
Territory of Iguassu, made up of
the western portions of the states
of Santa Catharina and Parana.
With a subtropical climate and
rather heavy but evenly dist-iubt-
ed rainfall, Iguassu is suitable for
white settlement 1t is the most
de1sely populated of the mainland
territories, with more than three
persons per square mile.
Timber is the main resource Of
Iguassu. It's forests cover nearly
it's entire area. Cleared regions
campos-make good farming and
grazing land.
Iguassu has a double Niagara
Falls attraction-the famous falls
of the Iguassu River, 81 feet higher
than Niagara, and the Guaiza Fills
(Sete Quedas) of the Parana. iudg-
ed by volume the greatest in the
world. The territory shares the
first-named falls with Argentina,
the second with Paraguay.
Next new territory on this clock
wise tour is Ponta Po~a, which adj
joins Iguassu on the northwest and
consists of a 100-mile-wide strip
extending across southern Mato
Crosse, at the Paraguay border.
1t produces herva mate-the
South American tea - and que
bracho wood and bark. Dry-season
grazing of cattle in the Pantanal,
an area in the flood plain of the
Paraguay River, is an important
occupation of the 10000 inhabi-
tants. Gold has been reported, but
extent of deposits is unknown.
Ponta Pora is the only territory
with railroad connection to Brazil S
large population centers. The San
tos-Corumba line begins at Sac
Paulo's seaport and crosses the
states of Sac Paulo and Mato
Crosse. touching at Porto Esper-
anca. Ponta Poras port on the
Paraguay. This line will be con-
tinued to join the Bolivian system,
and reach the. Pacific at africa,
Chile. Water transportatio is
available by way of the Paraguay
and Parana Rivers. An airline
serves the towns of Ponta Pora.
Companario, and Porto Murtinho.
Eight hundred miles northwest
of Porto Esperanca is Porto Velho
on the Madeira, center of the Ter.
ritory of Guapore. This division is
named for the Guapore River, its
boundary with Bolivia. A railro Dad
parallels the Madeira and Guapore
from Porto Velho to Guaiara-
Mirim. With the exception of the
people living in the port of Labrea
on the Purus, the territory's 80.
900 population lives along this rail-
way. Guapore was taken for the
most part from Mato Crosse: it's
Labrea region was subdivided
from Amazo1as.
Guapore is in the "big woods"
section of Brazil, where the end
less expanse of the rain forest is
interrupted only by broad rivers
flowing to the Amazon. The SOUTH
ern part has wet and dry season.
but the northern region is typical
/ of the central Amazon basin -
heavy rainfall all year, and con-
slant high temperatures. Wild rub
her is the main resource.
Extending west from the north
west corner of Guapore is Acre,
the original pre-Vargas federal ter
rito~y, nestled in Brazils farthest
west bulge. Beyond it's iungles lie
Bolivia and Peru. It's $1,000 square
miles. an area equal to Michigan's,