
Adventure Travel / Brazil - Atlantic Forest or better Atlantic Rainforest is the English translation for
Mata Atlântica which occurs in
South,
Southeast and Northeast
Brazil.
Particularly for trekking / hiking & mountain biking, it is presently one of the most exciting eco travel & tour destinations in Brazil.
While most people limit this term to Brazil's dense evergreen coastal rainforest,
Mata Atlântica in reality
is a complex terrestrial
biome. It is composed of
pioneer formations and
lowland rainforest along the coast,
submontane,
montane
and
high montane
tropical
and
seasonal rainforest, growing on the slopes
of the
Mar /
Mantiqueira - mountain system
such as
campos de altitude in the higher elevations.