Visiting Brazil: Pantanal I (MT /MS)

The Pantanal is an ecological paradise in the heart of Brazil. It is the planet’s largest flooded lowland, and the world’s third biggest environmental reserve. Its ecological importance is enormous because it is home to one of the richest ecosystems ever found, with periodically flooded seasonal woods.

It displays the largest concentration of neo-tropical fauna, including several endangered species – mammals, reptiles and fish – and it also serves as habitat for an enormous variety of native birds as well as those coming from other areas in the Americas.

The Pantanal is one of the best places in Brazil for flora and fauna observation and for fishing – only permitted between March and October – due to its abundance of animals.

It has a total area of 230 thousand square kilometers, covering 12 townships in the States of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. To the North, there are the Paracis, Azul and Roncador mountains. To the East, the Maracaju Mountain Range. To the South, the Dodoquena Mountain Range. And, to the West, the Paraguayan and Bolivian swamps.

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