Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Portugal

Location
Portugal is located 38 digrees north and 9 digrees south. Thats the exact location. Portugal is in Southwest Europe and borders Spain to the east and the Atlantic ocean to the west.
Climate
Portugals climate is niether too hot nor too cold. It all depends on the area that you are in and the time of year that you are there. More people come in the spring time because it is nice and sunny, and just about the perfect time to go, But if you go in april it rains a lot.
Natural Rescources
Some of portugals natural rescources are Silver, Gold, Clay, Salt, Zinc, Tin and Copper. Thoes are few of their natural rescources but there are many more where that came from.
Language and Sayings.
In Portugal they mostly speak Portugeese, But about 32% of people in portugal can understand and speak English. Some of their sayings are:
Portugeese: A pressa é inimiga da perfeição.English: Haste makes waste.
Portugees: Alegria de uns, tristeza de outros. English: One man’s happiness is another man’s sadness.
Land Features
In the northeast there are mountains, but there arent many other land features. the rest are mostly just rolling plains.
Transportation-
They get around basically just like us, By car, By train, By bus, and sadly enough, just like us, they drive drunk.

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