Tags: World Heritage Site.
The Atlantic Forest (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica) is a terrestrial Biome and region which extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina.The Atlantic Forest has ecoregions within the following biome categories: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests Tropical and subtropical grasslands savannas and shrublands and Mangrove forests.
