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Soy expansion in the Brazilian Amazon frontier
A case study fromMato Grosso
Villa Rica
Sao José do Xingu
Matupá
Sinop
Sorriso
Canabrava
do Norte
Querencia
Bom Jesus
do Araguaia
Serra Nova
Dourada
Gaucha
do Norte
Santo Antonio
do Leste
Canarana
Agua Boa
Paranatinga
Confresa
Sao Felix
do Araguaia
Nova Xavantina
Barra do Garcas
Primavera
do Leste
Poxoréo
Rondonópolis
Cuiaba
Chapada do
Guimaraes
Barra do
Bugres
Santo Antonio
do Leveger
Tangarà
da Serra
Diamantino
Nova Olimpia Nobres
Biomes
Forest
Cerrado
(savannah)
Transition area
Pantanal
(swamp)
Indigenous area (protected by the Federal Constitution of Brazil)
Soy planted area
Agriculture
National road
Infrastructure
Interstate road
Sources: IBGE and Mongabay, online databases accessed in 2010.
Sao Paulo
Brasilia
Cuiabà