Talk:Caatinga
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I reduced parts of this article that were repetitive and modified it to show that the caatinga is really a vegetation first and a region second. Where are the external links? It looks like most of this article was copied from a source not mentioned.Vogensen 23:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
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The article made no mention that caatinga was a vegetation in the opening sentences and the paragraphs about climate were repeated with different words.Vogensen 08:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I think to focus on the use of the term caatinga as primarily a vegetation is a mistake. It is a term that clearly refers to a landscape, a climate, a particular environment.
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I would like to remark that according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics the term Caatinga refers exclusively to the type of vegetation that occurs in a wide area of the Brazilian territory, ranging from Northern Minas Gerais to Ceará. Caatinga is not to be confused with:
- Cerrado -- The typical vegatation of the Brazilian Central regions, ranging from Central Minas Gerais to East Rondônia and from Tocantins to West São Paulo (State), with some isolated pockets in Amazonia.
- Sertão -- the typical landscape of the Brazilian Northeast, the word was used for all inland Brazil until the early 20th century.
jggouvea 03:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
