Brazilian Highlands
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The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau is an extensive geographical region covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all some 4,500,000 km2 or approximately half
Pedra da Mina, a mountain in the state of São Paulo, in 1997
Land ocean ice cloud hires
Cerrado
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The Cerrado is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo
Brazilian Highlands
…fertile ground known as "purple land". Large portions of this region were also covered by the Atlantic Rainforest, while araucaria highland forest and cerrado grasslands take up much of the rest of the space. Central Plateau occupying the central portions of Brazil, with sedimentary and crystalline formations…
Vegetation in Pirineus State Park, Goiás
Green vegetation during the summer, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil
Fields of flowers in bloom during spring, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil
The frog species Physalaemus nattereri (posterior view shown) is found in the open cerrado, but not in adjacent gallery forests