Mato Grosso tropical dry forests
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Fire in the Xingu Indigenous Park (August 2016}
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| Realm | Neotropical |
| Biome | Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests |
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| Area | 413,880 km2 |
| Country | Brazil |
| Coordinates | 11°46′05″S 53°31′41″W / 11.768°S 53.528°WCoordinates: 11°46′05″S 53°31′41″W / 11.768°S 53.528°W |
The Mato Grosso tropical dry forests (NT0140), also called the Mato Grosso seasonal forests, is an ecoregion in central Brazil to the south of the Amazon region. It contains vegetation in the transition between the Amazon rainforest to the north and the cerrado savanna to the south. The opening of highways through the region has caused rapid population growth, deforestation and pollution.
The Mato Grosso tropical dry forests ecoregion covers 41,388,010 hectares (102,272,000 acres). The forests are mainly in the north of the state of Mato Grosso, but extend into the southeast of Amazonas, the south of Pará and parts of and Maranhão.
Some sources include the ecoregion in the Amazon biome. In the northwest it adjoins the Madeira-Tapajós moist forests and Tapajós-Xingu moist forests ecoregions, and extends north for some distance between them. In the east patches of the Mato Grosso seasonal forests are interspersed with the and extend as far as the . In the south and east the Mato Grosso seasonal forests meet the cerrado ecoregion.
In the north the slopes are from 8% to 30%, while in the south they are less than 8%. The northeast of the region is in the Serra do Cachimbo and the eastern part is in the Serra dos Caiabis and Serra Formosa. These three ranges are well-drained savannas. The ecoregion contains part of the Alto-Xingu, the headwaters of the Xingu River. The central and western area cover a river drainage basin between the Serra do Roncador and the Serra do Formosa. In the east and center most of the soils are ultisols. In the western serras they are mainly entisols and oxisols.
The Mato Grosso tropical dry forests ecoregion is in the neotropic ecozone and the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome.
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