Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso | |
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| Anthem: "Hino de Mato Grosso" | |
Location in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 15°34′00″S 56°04′30″W / 15.56667°S 56.07500°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Capital and largest city | Cuiabá |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Mauro Mendes (UNIÃO) |
| • Vice Governor | Otaviano Pivetta (Republicanos) |
| • Senators | Jayme Campos (UNIÃO) Margareth Buzetti (PP) Wellington Fagundes (PL) |
| Area | |
• Total | 903,357 km2 (348,788 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 3rd |
| Highest elevation | 902 m (2,959 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 3,658,649 |
| • Rank | 17th |
| • Density | 4.1/km2 (10/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 25th |
| Demonym | Mato-grossense |
| GDP | |
| • Total | R$ 233.390 billion (US$ 43.294 billion) |
| HDI | |
| • Year | 2021 |
| • Category | 0.736 – high (11th) |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BRT-1) |
| Postal Code | 78000-000 to 78890-000 |
| ISO 3166 code | BR-MT |
| Website | portal |
Mato Grosso (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmatu ˈɡɾosu] ⓘ – lit. 'Thick Bush') is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring states (from west clockwise) are: Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It is divided into 142 municipalities and covers an area of 903,357 square kilometers, consequently the state is roughly 82.2% of the size of its southwest neighbor, the nation of Bolivia. A state with a flat landscape that alternates between vast chapadas and plain areas, Mato Grosso contains three main ecosystems: the Cerrado, the Pantanal and the Amazon rainforest.
The Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, with its caves, grottoes, tracks, and waterfalls, is one of its tourist attractions. The extreme northwest of the state has a small part of the Amazonian forest. The Xingu Indigenous Park and the Araguaia River are in Mato Grosso. Farther south, the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, is the habitat for nearly one thousand species of animals and many aquatic birds.