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Bookmark or Share- Cerrado - WikipediaThe Cerrado (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and the Federal District.
- Cerrado - The Nature ConservancyThe Cerrado is the world’s most biologically rich savanna. It has over 10,000 species of plants, of which 45% are exclusive to the Cerrado, and it stretches across nearly 500 million acres of Brazil — an area nearly three times the size of Texas. The Cerrado also feeds three of the major water basins in South America: the Amazon, Paraguay ...
- Cerrado | Places | WWF - World Wildlife FundThe Cerrado savanna, which lies mostly in Brazil, has never received the same attention as its more glamorous neighbor, the Amazon. Yet it is the world’s most biodiverse savanna, home to 5% of the planet’s animals and plants. It's also critical for supplying clean water and sequestering carbon, the process of storing vast amounts of carbon ...
- Cerrado, the Brazilian Savanna | WWFLocated between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and Pantanal, the Cerrado is the largest savanna region in South America. Lurking among the arid grasslands and shrubbery one finds such large mammals as the jaguar ( Panthera onca ), maned wolf ( Chrysocyon brachyurus ), giant anteater ( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ), giant armadillo ( Priodontes ...
- The Cerrado biome - Encyclopedia of the EnvironmentA biome being a set of ecosystems, the Cerrado biomeis composed of different ecosystems, sometimes forests like gallery forests along rivers or dry forests (mata seca) but the predominant vegetation is savannas and tropical grasslands. The Cerrado is usually referred to as the Brazilian savanna.
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