The richness of fauna and flora, diverse landscapes - from sweetly colonial cities through tiny fishing villages, endless beaches located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the colorful world hidden in the jungle of the Amazon - this is exactly what Brazil has to offer ...
Animals of Brazil and other wealth of the country
The territory of this state occupies almost half of the entire territory of South America. Brazil is the largest country on this continent. Borders as many as ten states! Brazil has a huge number of species of mammals and freshwater fish, thanks to five major ecosystems (here you can observe an amazing combination of climatic zones such as the Atlantic rainforest, desert areas, savannahs and wetlands). Here you can find more than fifteen million species of insects, five thousand species of amphibians and more than one and a half thousand species of birds. Many Brazilian animals are on the list of species that are facing extinction. The leading representatives of the animal world include anteater, capybara (the largest of rodents with a body weight of up to 50 kg), jaguar, hyacinth macaw parrot, sea and freshwater turtles, as well as alligator, caiman and many others.
Amazing and varied Brazilian flora
The animals and plants of Brazil are full of variety and splendor. Vegetation is largely due to a humid tropical climate. A variety of flora will please everyone, especially because most of the country is occupied by forests. Despite their felling, they are still growing wildly.
Moist equatorial forests grow on a vast territory near the Amazon, as well as the northern outskirts of the Brazilian Highlands. Equatorial forests are a true natural treasury with a variety of tree species. The highest of them can reach even 70 meters. Between the trees, creepers are entangled, and in some places epiphytes are found.
Flora and fauna of Brazil
Epiphytes are specific plants that grow on other plants, but do not parasitize on them. They just use them as their foundation. May arise from a branch or shoot. Epiphytes do not take nutrients from plants, because they themselves are well adapted to extract everything they need from rain or air. The wet equatorial forests are called selva. Among the main types of trees, the following can be noted: Brazilian hevea, fragrant dipterix and American mahogany (retinue). The coastal plains are full of palm trees and ferns. The central region of the plateau is filled with savannahs and forests called kaatinga, where various Brazilian animals also live. The definition of kaatinga comes from the language of the Indians and means "white forest".
A typical savannah, on which there is a small amount of vegetation and trees, in turn, is defined as the campos serrados. Campos limpos is a forest steppe characteristic of southern Brazil. We will not find trees here, but here fields extend, grasses grow, reaching a height of 1 meter. In Brazil, there are also palm groves, and in the river valleys you can see gallery forests.
Variety of animals
The fauna is in no way inferior to the richness of the plant world. The animals of Brazil mostly live in the Amazon. Walking through the country: ocelots, capybari, tapirs and collar bakers. You can also find anteaters, sloths, monkeys and various species of birds. The presence of boa-stranglers and anacondas, as well as poisonous representatives of insects and spiders, is not uncommon. In the Amazon, predatory piranhas and freshwater dolphins swim.