| Table 6-4: Generalized land-cover
types for South America, by country. |
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Closed |
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Degraded Savanna |
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| Country |
Trop Moist Forest |
Recently Degraded TMF |
Closed Forest |
Degraded Closed Forest |
Wood- lands |
Wood- lands |
Grass- lands |
Scrub- lands |
Desert, Bare Soil |
Water |
Snow, Rock, Ice |
Other |
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| Argentina |
1.2
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0.0
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96.8
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0.0
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645.4
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15.2
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755.4
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1,126.8
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37.9
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34.0
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| Bolivia |
323.5
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12.7
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409.2
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24.6
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345.1
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102.2
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87.7
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91.0
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16.5
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11.0
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| Brazil |
3,522.3
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519.7
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3,686.0
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1,692.2
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1,555.9
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330.0
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740.0
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179.4
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0.0
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80.9
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| Chile |
0.0
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0.0
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134.1
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29.1
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75.2
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29.6
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101.1
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100.9
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186.8
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7.0
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| Colombia |
581.6
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5.4
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622.5
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11.4
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116.3
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14.5
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255.5
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64.0
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0.0
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3.1
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| Ecuador |
115.5
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1.7
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121.0
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1.7
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33.7
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4.3
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41.9
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16.5
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2.5
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0.6
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| French Guiana |
78.8
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0.0
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79.8
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2.4
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0.6
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0.0
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0.2
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0.0
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0.0
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0.1
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| Guyana |
150.4
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2.0
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171.6
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2.4
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5.4
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0.3
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18.4
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1.5
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0.0
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1.2
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| Paraguay |
0.3
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0.0
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8.0
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0.2
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209.1
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50.7
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104.0
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26.5
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0.0
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0.6
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| Peru |
620.8
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19.1
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654.7
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10.1
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88.0
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78.8
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139.0
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161.7
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88.0
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8.3
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| Suriname |
136.0
|
2.5
|
128.5
|
10.0
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0.5
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0.3
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1.2
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0.4
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0.0
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1.1
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| Uruguay |
0.0
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0.0
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2.1
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0.0
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0.9
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0.0
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154.1
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11.0
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0.0
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3.0
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| Venezuela |
370.1
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0.2
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415.5
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0.0
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33.9
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40.2
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243.3
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109.2
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0.0
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11.4
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| Total |
5,908.5
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563.4
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6,530.7
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1,803.7
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3,109.8
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666.9
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2,642.0
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1,889.0
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331.7
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163.2
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Notes: All values are given in 1,000s km2; there are 314,200
km2 unclassified; IMF includes tropical moist, semi-deciduous, and gallery forests;
grasslands includes those seasonally flooded; closed forest includes TMF, montane
forests, cool and temperate deciduous forest, and tropical seasonal forest;
scrublands also include degraded savanna grasslands and agriculture; desert,
bare soil includes salt marsh communities; and other includes wet vegetation
and mangroves. Source: Stone et al., 1994.
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