Overview

There is a different Brazil in Each region of this continental country. Brazil has an area of 8.5 million squares kilometers, occupying nearly half of South America. That area has several climate zones which include the tropical wetlands in the North, the semiarid in the Northeast and temperate zones in the south. The climatic differences contributes to the ecological differences forming different biogeographic zones called biomes. The main Brazilian biomes includes the world’s largest tropical rain forest (the Amazon Forest), the world’s largest floodable plain (the Pantanal), the Cerrado (savannas and forests), the Caatinga Savanna (semiarid forest), the Atlantic Forest (Tropical Rain Forest) and the Pampa Savanna.