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SETTING The ecoregion covers an area of 7,900 square kilometers (3,100 square miles), and includes several well-defined enclaves that range along the Atlantic coast from Brazil's northeast to southeast, extending from the tropics to the subtropics. The northernmost enclave is in Rio Grande Do Norte state in northeastern Brazil. Other enclaves are north and south of the city of Salvador and near the mouth of the Jequitinhonha River in Bahia state; north and south of the mouth of the Rio Paraíba Do Sul in Rio De Janeiro State ; and along the coast of southern Santa Catarina State and Rio Grande Do Sul state, as far as the Uruguay an border. REFERENCES
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