{"id":232622,"date":"2025-06-10T03:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a0076a479ecab2b60b99b6f275642933"},"modified":"2025-06-10T03:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:32:54","slug":"central-brazil-cerrado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=232622","title":{"rendered":"Central Brazil Cerrado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goi\u00e1s.<\/div>\n
NASA\/Wanmei Liang; Landsat data: USGS<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goi\u00e1s, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers about one-fifth of Brazil\u2019s land area and represents the second-largest biome in South America behind the Amazon. These lands are home to thousands of plant, bird, reptile, and mammal species, many of which are found nowhere else on the planet.<\/p>\n

Learn more about this area sometimes referred to as the \u201ccradle of waters.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Text credit: Lindsey Doermann<\/em><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/Wanmei Liang<\/em>; Landsat data: USGS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goi\u00e1s, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers about one-fifth of Brazil\u2019s land area and represents the\u00a0second-largest biome\u00a0in South America behind the Amazon. These lands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15644,16994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth","category-earth-observatory"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t