Mato Grosso do Sul

Area : 357.124 (em km²)City: 78Main City: Campo GrandePopulation: 2.449.341 (2007)

GNP: R$19.953.528.615,00Per Capita Income:R$ 8.944,95 (2005)HDI: 0,778 (PNUD - 2000)

Economy• Livestock 15,8%.• Industry 16,7%.• Servicing 67,5%.

Livestock and Farming

• Livestock farming for export. • The largest producer of

soybeans in Brazil.• A big sugarcane cultivation • Farming grains (like corn, rice)

IndustryMain segments are the food,

textile, steel and chemicals, which are installed in four major

poles: Campo Grande, Dourados, Corumbá and

Três Lagoas.

Nature

• Climate: Tropical, two distinct seasons a rainy and a dry.• Vegetation: A transition area having vegetation as

cerrado (one at most), Amazon forest, fields, forest Atlantic, dry forest.

• Terrain: mostly flat. But the Pantanal is a plain, whose height does not exceed 200 m, under constant flooding

Tourism

Ecological tourism promoted the

Pantanal and the city of Bonito