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Pantanal (South America) Show map of South America The Pantanal ( Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐ̃taˈnaw] ) is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands .
As of November 2023, 171 states have acceded to the convention and designated 2,500 sites to the list, covering 257,106,360 hectares (635,323,700 acres); two other states have acceded to the convention but have yet to designate any sites. The complete list of the wetlands is accessible on the Ramsar Sites Information Service website. [3]
Category: Wetlands of South America by country. 3 languages. ... Wetlands of Peru (1 C) U. Wetlands of Uruguay (1 C) V. Wetlands of Venezuela (1 C, 1 P)
Protected. 105,323 km² (28%) [1] The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains"; Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈʝanos]) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
Pampas. Coordinates: 35°S 62°W. Pampas Plain. Plain. Landscape in the Pampas at eye level in Brazil. Approximate location and borders of the Pampas encompassing the southeastern area of South America bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Coordinates: 35°S 62°W / 35°S 62°W / -35; -62. Countries.
Wetlands of South America by country (10 C) F. ... Swamps of South America (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 16 February 2019, at 23:14 (UTC). ...
Amazon basin. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname ...
Iberá is one of the most important freshwater reservoirs in South America and the second-largest wetland in the world after Pantanal in Brazil. [citation needed] It is of pluvial origin, with a total area of 15,000–20,000 km 2 (5,800–7,700 sq mi).