Brazil is 400 miles from South America.
Amazon basin . The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,500,000 km2 , or roughly 40 percent of the South American continent . Brazil ( listen ) , is the largest country in both South America and Latin America . Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east , Brazil has a coastline of 7491 km It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3 % of the continent 's land area . South America . Brazil is by far the most populous South American country , with more than half of the continent 's population , followed by Colombia , Argentina , Venezuela and Peru .