Pantanal Wetland
- Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world’s largest tropical freshwater 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.
- The formation of the wetland is a result of the large, concave pre-Andean depression of the earth’s crust, related to the Andean orogeny of the Tertiary.
- The apple snail is a keystone species in Pantanal’s ecosystem.
- Pantanal is bounded by the Chiquitano dry forests to the west and northwest, by the Arid Chaco dry ....
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