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- Some of the rarest animals to inhabit the Pantanal are Giant Otters and Marsh deer.
- 2. When compared to other wetlands in the world, the Pantanal is regarded as the most preserved.
- 3. Less than 2% is under government protection (most of it is privately owned).
- 4. It is roughly seven times the size of Wales.
- 5. The flood area is the size of the Netherlands.
- 6. Over 600 species of birds, 200 species of fish, 480 species of reptiles and over 300 types of mammals are thought to live there.
- 7. A larger diversity of birds live in the Pantanal than the Amazon.
- 8. The Pantanal has the biggest American concentration of animal life.
- 9. It is estimated around 195,000 sq km in total.
- 10. It is not a marshland even though it has annual flooding, because it is not stagnant (water/air stale from not moving) and there is no malaria.
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The Pantanal ecosystem.The Pantanal is one of the world's largest tropical wetland areas, and is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area estimated at between 140,000 and 195,000 square kilometres (54,000 and 75,000 sq mi). Various subregional ecosystems exist, each with distinct hydrological, geological and ecological characteristics; up to 12 of them have been defined (RADAMBRASIL 1982).About 80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing an astonishing biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping to support a dense array of animal species.The name "Pantanal" comes from the Portuguese word pântano, meaning wetland, bog, swamp, quagmire or marsh. By comparison, the Brazilian highlands are locally referred to as the planalto, plateau or, literally, high plain.
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