Trained by the States of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, the Southeastern region occupies 10.85% of the Brazilian territory, with an extension of 927,287 km2s. It is placed in the highest part of the Atlantic Planalto, where they are the mountain ranges of Mantiqueira and the Sea do Espinhaço. Its typical landscape presents/displays cleared mountain formation, calls “seas of noses� and the “sugar breads�, that are mountains of granite-like needles.

The predominant climate in the coast is the tropical Atlantic and in the altitude plateaus the tropical one, with occasional frosts.

The tropical forest that existed originally in the coast was deforested in the period of occupation of the territory, having given rise to coffee plantations. In the State of Minas Gerais the closed vegetation predominates of, with shrubs and grass, and in the valley of the São River Francisco and in the north of the State is caatinga.

The Southeastern region is the one of greater population, lodges to the two more important national metropolis, the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, located in the States that take their same names.
Its economy is developed and industrialized between the economies of the five regions.