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Brazil - a land of biodiversity - One photo per post

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I would like to share with you some pictures that show how Brazil is biodiverse. Please, JUST ONE OR TWO PHOTOS PER POST, ONE OR TWO PHOTOS PER DAY AND GOOD PICS (HD) SIZE (800x600 ou 1024x768) !!!!​


Please, JUST ONE OR TWO PHOTOS PER POST AND JUST GREAT PICS(HD) SIZE (800x600 ou 1024x768) AND WITH THE MAP WITH THE STATE ABOUT THE PIC !!!!​






Area - Total 8 514 876.599 km ² (5th)
Population - Estimated 2009 191 480 630 inhab. (5)
Density 22 inhabitants / km ² (182)


The wildlife of Brazil is all the natural flora and fauna in the South American country. Home to 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, which contains more than one-third of all species in the world, Brazil is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet. It has the most known species of plants (55,000), freshwater fish (3000) and mammals (over 520). It also ranks third on the list of countries with the most number of bird species (1622) and fifth with the most reptile species (468). Approximately two-thirds of all species worldwide are found in tropical areas, often coinciding with developing countries such as Brazil. Brazil is second only to Indonesia as the country with the most endemic species.
 
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Monte Roraima

locate - Roraima State, Northern Region, on the border with Venezuela and Guyana. 2739 meters.




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Monte Roraima is one of a hilly terrain with hundreds of other mountains and hills called Tepuis located south of Venezuela (area scalable), extreme northern Brazil and western Guyana constituting the triple border. It is located in the Sierra de Pacaraima, is the highest point of Guyana, and the tenth largest rock formation Brazil, with an altitude of 2739.30 meters.

The Roraima stands out for having unique characteristics. Estimated to have risen more than 2 billion years, during which even the continents had separated and have acquired so today. One of the peculiarities that differentiate it from most other mountains is that resemble a huge "table", ie its top is flat (and has about 90 km long). Also, drain the hill million liters of water forming several waterfalls, in Venezuela the Indians call it the "mother of waters."
 
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Jalapão National Park (Table Mountains)

Jalapão is a state park in eastern Tocantins, North Region, Brazil, about 250 kilometers from the Tocantins capital, Palmas. It occupies 34,000 km2, making it the largest state park in Tocantins. The region is considered one of the biggest attractions of the cerrado, a tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, and has increasingly received interest among adventure tourism and ecotourism fans.

The vegetation is predominantly savannas, cut off by a web of rivers, streams and creeks.

State Of Tocantins




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