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Brazil current

The warm ocean current flowing southward along the Brazilian coast. Its origin is in the westward flowing south equatorial current , part of which turns south and flows along the South American coast as the Brazil current, a tongue of water of high temperature and high salinity. At about 35=AE$=AFS it meets the Falkland (Malvinas) current , the two turning east and crossing the ocean as the South Atlantic current .

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