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Definition of Caatingas

Caatinga
Caatinga Caa*tin"ga, n. [Tupi caa-tinga white forest.] (Phytogeography) A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

Meaning of Caatingas from wikipedia

- 6°00′00″S 40°00′00″W / 6.0000°S 40.0000°W / -6.0000; -40.0000 Caatinga (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaaˈtʃĩɡɐ]) is a type of semi-arid tropical vegetation...
- rajada, ****aré, ****aru, ****aru de cheiro, ****aru do ceará, ****baru das caatingas, emburana, emburana de cheiro, imburana, imburana brava, imburana cheirosa...
- element the exposure to the humid winds that blow from the ocean. The Caatinga has dry soils and its vegetation is formed by palm trees, such as buriti...
- August 2007. Retrieved 21 October 2008. "CPD: South America, Site SA19, Caatinga of North-eastern Brazil, Brazil". Botany.si.edu. Archived from the original...
- The Caatinga cacholote (Pseudoseisura cristata) is a species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to...
- Babaçu palm. The eastern portion of the state is dominated by the dry Caatingas shrublands, which extend across much of northeastern Brazil. The Cerrado...
- The spot-backed puffbird has sometimes been split into two species, the Caatinga puffbird and the Chaco puffbird. The spot-backed puffbird was described...
- The Caatinga parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum), also called the cactus parakeet and in aviculture the cactus conure, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae...
- Northeast Brazil is largely covered in a scrubby upland forest called caatingas, from the Tupi language, meaning white forest, since leaves fall during...
- humid forest on Tobago, and T. d. capistratus, which primarily inhabits caatinga and restinga in eastern Brazil. In eastern Colombia the species often occurs...