simple adobe farm house - rio grande do norte, brazil
Caatinga is a type of vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (kaa = forest, vegetation, tínga = white). It covers between 700,000 km² and 1,000,000 km² (depending on the source), over 10% of the Brazil's territory. Caatinga is a xeric shrubland and thorn forest, which consists primarily of small, thorny trees that shed their leaves seasonally. Cacti, thick-stemmed plants, thorny brush, and arid-adapted grasses make up the ground layer. Many annual plants grow, flower, and die during the brief rainy season. Caatinga covers the northeast portion of Brazil. It is located between 3°S 45°W and 17°S 35°W, extending across eight states of Brazil: Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, and parts of Minas Gerais. The Caatinga includes several enclaves of humid tropical forest, known as the Caatinga enclaves moist forests. The Caatinga is bounded by the Maranhão Babaçu forests to the northwest, the Atlantic dry forests and the Cerrado savannas to the west and southwest, the humid Atlantic forests along the Atlantic coast to the east, and by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and northeast. Caatinga is pronounced 'ca-chin-gaa'. The Caatinga is a very dry place in Brazil. The few people there have very little water and very little food. The little water they do have is most often dirty and people can die from drinking it. Droughts occur frequently in Caatinga. The poverty there is grinding; some people have heard to be living off cactus juice because they have no money to buy proper food.
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Location: Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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