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Atlantic Forest
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Key facts
- Location
- Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay
- Area
- 1,315,460 km (507,900 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biome
- Subclass of
- forest
- Named after
- Atlantic Ocean
- Country
- Paraguay
- Area
- 1234000
- Image
- Atlantic Forest WWF.jpg
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- Commons category
- Atlantic Forest
- topic's main category
- Category:Atlantic Forest
- native label
- Mata Atlântica
- Commons gallery
- Atlantic forest
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Encyclopedic overview
The Atlantic Forest (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica) is a moist broadleaf forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where it is known as the Missionary rainforest (Spanish: Selva Misionera).
The Atlantic Forest has ecoregions within the following biome categories: seasonal moist and dry broad-leaf tropical forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, and mangrove forests. The Atlantic Forest is characterized by a high biodiversity and endemism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atlantic Forest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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