The cerrado (Portuguese: "thick", "dense") is a vast area of savanna-like grasslands in Brazil. Areas of cerrado are found in the states of Minas Gerais, Goiás, Tocantins, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and São Paulo, as well as in the Federal District. They account for around 22% of the country's total surface area. Savanna is a grassland dotted with trees, and occurs in several types of biomes. ... An Inner Mongolia Grassland. ... There are 26 States of Brazil, or Estados in Portuguese, which are the federal states of Brazil, plus the Federal District which holds the capital city, Brasília. ... Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ... Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. ... Tocantins can refer to: Tocantins State Tocantins River This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Map of the Bahia bay in 1882 Flag of Bahia Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil. ... Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ... Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. ... São Paulo is a state in Brazil. ... The Brazilian Federal District (in Portuguese, Distrito Federal) is set apart for Brasília, the capital of Brazil. ...
The cerrado is characterised by an enormous range of plant and animal biodiversity, but these natural riches are increasingly threatened by single-crop plantations (monoculture; particularly soya), the expansion of agriculture in general, and coal mining. Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. ... Monoculture means literally a single shared integrated pattern. ... Soya (chiefly British English) or soy (chiefly American English) is the herb Glycine max, which produces the soya bean or soybean (see that article for more detail). ...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug has described the cerrado as one of Earth's last remaining arable frontiers for the expansion of agriculture. Nobel Peace Prize (where Nobel is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable) is one of five Nobel Prizes requested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Norman Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (born 25 March 1914) is considered by some to be the father of modern agriculture and the father of the green revolution. ...
The Cerrado (Portuguese: "closed," or "inaccessible") is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil.
The Cerrado accounts for 22% of Brazil's area, an area the size of Alaska.
The cerrado is characterised by an enormous range of plant and animal biodiversity, but these natural riches are increasingly threatened by single-crop plantations (monoculture; particularly soybeans), the expansion of agriculture in general, and the burning of the vegetation for charcoal.
Cerrado is the regional name given to the Brazilian tropical savanna and is located on the large plateau that occupies the central highlands (see map).
The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian biome comprising a total area of approximately 2 Mio km2 (20% of the Brazilian territory), from which 300.000 km2 in 1993 were designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
The Cerrado is a mosaic of vegetation types ranging from open grasslands (campo limpo) through sparse tree cover (cerrado sensu stricto) and dry semi-open canopy (cerradão) to the gallery forests (evergreen closed canopy tall forest), along the edges of watercourses, and to mesophitic forests (semideciduous closed canopy forest), associated to calcareous soils.
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