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The wet Chaco is home to grasslands and gallery forests with numerous tree species,
including the quebracho colorado and caranday palm. The dry Chaco, although ex-
tremely parched, is still thick with vegetation. It hosts taller trees and a dense understory
of low-growing spiny trees and shrubs.
In Mesopotamia rainfall is sufficient to support swampy lowland forests and upland
savanna. Misiones' native vegetation is dense subtropical forest, though its upper eleva-
tions are studded with araucaria pines.
The once lush native grasses of the Argentine pampas have suffered under grazing
pressure and the proliferation of grain farms that produce cash crops such as soybeans.
Today very little native vegetation remains, except along watercourses such as the Río
Paraná.
