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Ecoregions of Bolivia

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Pantanal
The Pantanal (, ) is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area estimated at between . Various subregional ecosystems exist, each with distinct hydrological, geological, and ecological characteristics; up to 12 of them have been defined.
Gran Chaco
region of Southern America
Cerrado
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, Paraná and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are the Brazilian Highlands – the Planalto. The main habitat types of the Cerrado consist of forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The Cerrado also includes savanna wetlands and gallery forests.
Puna grassland
type of grassland in the central part of the high Andes
Yungas
The Yungas (Aymara yunka; 'warm or temperate Andes or earth', Quechua yunka; 'warm area on the slopes of the Andes') is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends into Northwest Argentina at the slope of the Andes pre-cordillera. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests. Like the surrounding areas, the Yungas belong to the Neotropical realm; the climate is rainy, humid, and warm.
Moxos savanna
tropical savanna in Bolivia
Bolivian Yungas
geographical region of Bolivia
Central Andean dry puna
ecoregion in South America
Southwestern Amazonian moist forests
ecoregion in the Upper Amazon basin
Chiquitano dry forests
Ecoregion in Bolivia and Brazil
Central Andean puna
Interandean Valles
geographic region
Tropical Andes
Tropical subregion of the Andes Mountains
Central Andean wet puna
Southern Andean Yungas
ecoregion in Argentina and Bolivia