Pantanal of Miranda

The Pantanal of Miranda is bordered to the north by the by the Pantanal of Aboboral; to the south by the forests of Chaquenha in the municipality of Nabileque.

The vegetation is typical savanna, Wood and Field.  Here there is a strong concentration of Carandá Palms, and especially the paratudo (Tabebuia caraiba), this creating the renouned paratudais.

The savanna of Miranda has much in common with the Chaquena region, having considerable overlap of species typical of the Paraguayan with those of the Brazilian territory.

The soils or the Pantanal of Miranda are acidic clays and sands, with a marked predominance of the first type.

Because of this reason, various species of forage plants that are absent in the Pantanal of Aquiadauana are encountered here.  The campos limpos of Miranda exibit optimal foraging species, having as well a considerable number of less hardy species in the pastures.
The pastures of this Pantanal are principally populated by Panicum laxum, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Hemarthria altissima, Leersia hexandra e Paspalum almum.

The "canjiqueiral", a plant association between canjiqueira e capim-mimoso, predominates in the sandy áreas.  These areas of sandy soils, in Miranda, are configures, in a certain manner, with “bolsões”; large pockets, or forest islands in in the acidic clay deposits.

In the areas where sandy soils existe, the same forms of forraging plants apear as in the regions of Aquidauana, Nhecolândia, Abobral, Cáceres e Paiaguás, namely, Axonopus purpusii and Reimarochloa spp.

_{SOURCE:
Recursos Forrageiros nativos do Pantanal mato-grossense, por Antonio Costa Allem e José Francisco Montenegro Valls. Brasília, 1987. (EMBRAPA-CENARGEN. Documentos, 8)}