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The Cerrado covers an area of 1,916,900 km² (740,100 square miles), including the State of Goiás and the Federal District , most of Mato Grosso , Mato Grosso Do Sul , and Tocantins , the western portions of Minas Gerais and Bahia , the southern portion of Maranhão and Piauí , small portions of São Paulo and Paraná , and extends into northeastern Paraguay and eastern Bolivia . The Cerrado accounts for 22% of Brazil's area, an area the size of Alaska . The ''cerrado'' is characterised by an enormous range of plant and animal Biodiversity , but these natural riches are increasingly threatened by single-crop plantations ( Monoculture ; particularly Soybean s), the expansion of agriculture in general, and the burning of the vegetation for Charcoal . Notwithstanding the fact that much of it is already gone, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug has described the ''cerrado'' as one of Earth's last remaining arable frontiers for the expansion of agriculture. See also: ''' List Of Plants Of Cerrado Vegetation Of Brazil ''' EXTERNAL LINKS
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