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
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
According to IBGE, Brazil has its territory occupied by six terrestrial biomes and one marine biome.
Cerrado
…savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The Cerrado also includes savanna wetlands and gallery forests. The second largest of Brazil's major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest, the Cerrado accounts for a full 21 percent of the country's land area (extending marginally into Paraguay and Bolivia…