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Brazil Current
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Brazil Current
The
Brazil Current
is a warm water current that flows south along the
Brazilian
south coast to the mouth of the
Río de la Plata
. This current is caused by diversion of a portion of the
Atlantic
South Equatorial Current
from where that current meets the
South American
continent. It is a
western boundary current
like the
Gulf Stream
, and is indeed its southern counterpart; however, it is considerably shallower and weaker. It flows south from the equator to the west wind drift. It joins the
Falkland Current
at the
Argentine Sea
(see
Brazil–Falkland Confluence
), making it a temperate sea.
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