Maranhão Babaçu forests

Maranhão Babaçu forests
Maranhão Babaçu forests
	Babaçu palms in Itapecuru-mirim city, in Maranhão state
	Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders	List Amazon–Orinoco–Southern Caribbean mangroves; Caatinga; Caatinga moist-forest enclaves; Cerrado,; Tocantins–Araguaia–Maranhão moist forests;
Geography
Area	141,591 km2 (54,669 sq mi)
Countries	Brazil
States	Maranhão; Piauí,; Ceara;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	27,925 km² (20%)

The Maranhão Babaçu forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of north-central Brazil. The forests form a transition between the equatorial forests of the Amazon biome to the west and the drier savannas and xeric shrublands to the south and east.

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