Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Problems in Primary Production 15] Fig. 114. Almost three quarters of the coffee used in the world is produced in Brazil. The rubber ports. The United States is the greatest consumer of South American rubber, as well as coffee. Hence we have a special interest in the cities of Par4 and Manaos, since they border on the great jungle of the Amazon in which wild rubber trees flourish. With a huge area back of it abundantly producing so valuable a product, it would seem that Pari should have more than 200,000 inhabitants. But its development is slow because white men cannot stand its tropical diseases, great heat, and swarms of insects. Manaos seems at first glance to be an inland city, but like Montreal it is a seaport a thousand miles up a broad river. Manaos is naturally the great rubber gatherer of interior Brazil, for three of the largest tributaries of the Amazon join the main river near this port. 43. Why does Para fail to rank among the chief South American ports? The coffee ports. We have already noticed that the coffee ports of Rio de Janeiro and Santos are among the five chief ports of the continent (page 147). 14. Explain what conditions have influenced the growth of these cities. The grain and animal ports. The last group of ports is much the most important. It includes not only Montevideo, Buenos Aires,

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