1.   Most of the areas affected are sparsely populated jungle and savanna areas, but one, Cundinamarca, borders the capital.

2.   The campaign will concentrate on the vast Amazon region, where Brazil shares a sparsely populated jungle border with traditional drug producers such as Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

3.   The interior of Guyana, a former British colony on the northeast coast of South America, consists of sparsely populated jungle.

4.   The Tigers said they have begun setting up social services and distributing land to refugees for homes and farms, carved from the sparsely populated jungles around Kilinochchi.

5.   The sparsely populated jungle area known as the Cordillera del Condor has gold, uranium and possibly oil reserves.