Also with great tourist potential, their beauties form natural it like one of the regions of greater interest of the country, occupy 18.86% of the Brazilian territory, with an extension of 1.612.052 km2s and are formed by the States of Goiás, Kill Grosso do Sul, Kill Grosso and the Federal District. Located in the extensive Central Planalto (central plateau), its relief is characterized by the land predominance old and smoothed by the erosion, that gave rise chapadões (vegetation plains strickle without trees). In the part the west of the State of I kill Grosso do Sul and southwest of the State of I kill Grosso one is the depression of the Pantanal Matogrossense, furrowed by the Paraguay river and holds to floods during part of the year.
The vegetation of the Pantanal extremely is varied and its fauna of an extraordinary wealth, is an ideal place to realize a “photographic Safari�. In the region of the Planalto the closed vegetation predominates of. The climate of the region is tropical and semihumid, with frequent rains in summer.
The population is of approximately of 11.500.000 inhabitants, with a demographic densidad of 6.51 inhabitants by km2. The majority 81.35% of the inhabitants is concentrated in the urban zone. The life expectancy in this region is of 68 years.
The economy was based, initially, in the operation of diamond and gold mines and was, gradually, being replaced by the cattle ranch. The transfer of the federal capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, in 1960, and the construction of railroads that facilitated the access in the direction of the west, this situation to accelerated the demographic growth of the region, contributing to its development.
The tourism and the eco-tourism like economic activity have been developed quickly in the region, attracting visitors of diverse parts of the world, that they try to enjoy the wealth of the flora and the fauna of the Pantanal, as well as of the landscape of the found plated ones in the States of Goiás and Mato Grosso.
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