1 = Tropical rain forest, 5 = Tropical semi-desert (sparse scrub or sparse grassland), 6 = Tropical grassland (fairly closed grassland without many trees or shrubs), 7 = Tropical extreme desert (very sparse vegetation, or completely barren),  9 = Savanna (dense grassland with a scattering of trees and/or bushes), & 10 = Warm temperate evergreen forest (fairly tall, usually many broadleaved evergreen/semi-deciduous angiosperm trees but conifers also tend to be abundant, in moist climate).

For additional information: South America during the last 150,000 years


 

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