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If you were swimming off the coast of south Brazil (an eastern South American country) in the Atlantic Ocean, what type of current would you be in based on your knowledge of ocean circulation patterns

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Brazil Current, branch of the Atlantic South Equatorial Current, flowing southward in the South Atlantic Ocean along the eastern coast of South America from Cape St. Roque, Brazil, to about latitude 30°–40° S, where the northward-flowing Falkland Current deflects it to the east.

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