Physical map of Brazil

Physical map of Brazil shows the shape of the land with shaded relief and colors for elevation. Rivers and lakes are drawn in blue, and dashed lines show country borders. Download the labeled map or use the version without names as a worksheet.

Physical map of Brazil
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How to read this map

Named features on this map include Amazon basin, Brazilian Highlands, Mato Grosso Plateau, Caatinga, Guiana Highlands, Brazilian Highlands, Serra do Mar, Serra Geral, Serra da Mantiquiera, Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Serra da Ibiapaba, Serra do Cachimbo, Serra dos Gradaús, Serra do Espinho, Pakaraima Mountains, Chapada do Araripe, Borborema Plateau, Pico da Bandeira, Serra Branca, Carajás Mountains. The terrain colors help locate these features within the surrounding lowlands, plateaus and mountain belts.

The mapped river network includes Araguaia, São Francisco, Paranaíba, Tocantins, Indaiá, Braco Menor, Grande, Culuene. Only selected rivers are labeled at this scale; a missing label does not mean that a river is absent.

Greens show lower elevations; tan and brown show higher land, with pale tones toward the highest terrain. Shadows emphasize the slopes. Vertical relief is exaggerated to make landforms easier to read, so the map is not a slope survey. Blue tones distinguish seas from land; the legend is a guide to land elevation, not a chart of water depth.

The relief uses Terrain Tiles, a composite of SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 elevation data distributed through the AWS Open Data program. Boundaries, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. These are small-scale educational maps rather than navigation or engineering surveys.

Blank physical map

The blank version keeps the mapped features and removes the place labels. Download it for a geography worksheet or practice identifying the features.

Physical map of Brazil without names
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Features and names

ReferenceName or description
Named physical featureAmazon basin
Named physical featureBrazilian Highlands
Named physical featureMato Grosso Plateau
Named physical featureCaatinga
Named physical featureGuiana Highlands
Named physical featureBrazilian Highlands
Named physical featureSerra do Mar
Named physical featureSerra Geral
Named physical featureSerra da Mantiquiera
Named physical featureGrande Sertão Veredas National Park
Named physical featureSerra da Ibiapaba
Named physical featureSerra do Cachimbo
Named physical featureSerra dos Gradaús
Named physical featureSerra do Espinho
Named physical featurePakaraima Mountains
Named physical featureChapada do Araripe
Named physical featureBorborema Plateau
Named physical featurePico da Bandeira
Named physical featureSerra Branca
Named physical featureCarajás Mountains

Data sources and license

Map design and rendered images: Atlas of Maps, CC BY 4.0. Source databases retain their own licenses; the map license does not replace them.

Also see the political map of Brazil, with cities, internal divisions, a location map and printable outline maps.

Frequently asked questions

What does a physical map show?

A physical map shows landforms and water: mountains, plateaus, lowlands, rivers, lakes and seas. This map uses elevation colors and hill shading instead of coloring each country separately.

Can I download physical map of brazil without labels?

Yes. The blank relief map retains the terrain, rivers and outlines but removes place names. Both versions are available as PNG and PDF; the PDF uses A4 paper and can be scaled to US Letter.

Use this map

You can download, print and share this map for free, in class, in school projects, in presentations and on websites, as long as you credit the source: Physical map of Brazil · Atlas of Maps (atlasofmaps.com), license CC BY 4.0.

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