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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An extensive savanna region of south-central Brazil. Originally providing habitat for a wide assortment of wildlife, much of the Cerrado is now used as rangeland for grazing cattle.
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Once seen as a wasteland, the Cerrado is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.
Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010
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Once seen as a wasteland, the Cerrado is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.
Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010
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The Cerrado is the most biologically diverse savanna on Earth.
Chris McGowan: The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem 2009
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The Cerrado is a vast savanna that stretches across two million square kilometers in central Brazil and is about the size of Alaska and California put together.
Chris McGowan: The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem 2009
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The Cerrado is a vast savanna that stretches across two million square kilometers in central Brazil and is about the size of Alaska and California put together.
Chris McGowan: The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem 2009
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In addition, the Cerrado is a large part of the watershed for the mighty San Francisco and Paraguay River systems, and contains 700,000 square kilometers of land located within the Amazon Basin (the total area that drains into the Amazon River system; not to be confused with the Amazon rain forest).
Chris McGowan: The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem 2009
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The most important protected areas in the Cerrado are the 7,290-km2 Nascentes do Parnaíba National Park, the 330 km2 Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, the 2,000 - km2 Serra da Canastra National Park (although only about 720 km2 are actually protected), the 1,310-km2 Emas National Park and the 840-km2 Grande Sertão Veredas National Park.
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Hyundai chose to locate the Genesis Forest Project in Tocantins, Brazil - an area known as the Cerrado region, which is classified as a Biodiversity Hotspot.
Autoblog Green Sam Abuelsamid 2010
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The Cerrado is a vast tropical savannah, a well-watered grassland, which constitutes 24\% of Brazil's total land area of 846 million hectares-which, in turn, is 9\% larger than the continental United States.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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Parts of the Cerrado are a bit more developed than the Colombian-Venezuelan Plains, but this is largely by the international grain cartels, which exploit huge tracts of soy beans, and process them almost entirely for export.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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