Maranhão Babaçu forests
| Maranhão Babaçu forests | |
|---|---|
Babaçu palms in Itapecuru-mirim city, in Maranhão state | |
Ecoregion territory (in purple) | |
| Ecology | |
| Realm | Neotropical |
| Biome | tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests |
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| Geography | |
| Area | 141,591 km2 (54,669 mi2) |
| Countries | Brazil |
| States | |
| Conservation | |
| Conservation status | Critical/endangered |
| Protected | 27,925 km2 (20%) |
The Maranhão Babaçu forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of north-central Brazil. The forests form a transition between the equatorial forests of the Amazon biome to the west, the drier Cerrado savannas to the south and Caatinga shrublands to the east.