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  2. Cerrado - Wikipedia

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    The Cerrado biome is strategic for the water resources of Brazil. The biome contains the headwaters and the largest portion of South American watersheds (the Paraná-Paraguay, Araguaia-Tocantins, and São Francisco river basins) and the upper catchments of large Amazon tributaries, such as the Xingu and Tapajós. During the last four decades ...

  3. List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    How rich is the flora of Brazilian Cerrados? Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86 (1): 192-224. (in Portuguese) Coutinho, Leopoldo Magno Cerrado; University of São Paulo, São Paulo state (in Portuguese) Gamarra-Rojas, Cíntia. (2005) Checklist das Plantas do Nordeste (Checklist of Plants of Northeast Brazil).

  4. Biomes in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Cerrado. The Cerrado presents diverse regions, ranging from clean fields devoid of woody vegetation to cerradão, a dense tree formation. Its climate is particularly striking, presenting two well-defined seasons. The Cerrado is made up of grasslands, Savannahs and dry forests. It is the second largest biome behind the Amazon in South America.

  5. Pantanal - Wikipedia

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    The vegetation of the Pantanal, often referred to as the "Pantanal complex", is a mixture of plant communities typical of a variety of surrounding biome regions: these include moist tropical Amazonian rainforest plants, semiarid woodland plants typical of northeast Brazil, Brazilian cerrado savanna plants, and plants of the Chaco savannas of ...

  6. Category:Cerrado - Wikipedia

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    This category is for the Cerrado, an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, located in South America. It is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil , extending marginally into Paraguay and Bolivia .

  7. São Bartolomeu River Basin Environmental Protection Area

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    The environmental protected area contains samples of the Cerrado biome. It covers 82,680 hectares (204,300 acres). It was created on 7 November 1983 and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. [1]

  8. Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station - Wikipedia

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    Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station (Portuguese: Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins) is an ecological station in the states of Bahia and Tocantins, Brazil. It is one of the largest such units in the country, and protects a sparsely populated area of the cerrado biome. The main threat comes from frequent fires set by the local ...

  9. Caatinga - Wikipedia

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    It covers 912,529 km², [2] nearly 10% of Brazil's territory. It is home to 26 million people [3] and over 2000 species of plants, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The Caatinga is the only exclusively Brazilian biome, which means that a large part of its biological heritage cannot be found anywhere else on the planet.