Legal Amazon land area share 2021, by type of coverage
Legal Amazon deforested area was mostly concentrated in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso.
As of 2021, forest coverage accounted for nearly two thirds of the Legal Amazon land area in Brazil. Non-forest native vegetation extended through nearly 20 percent of the region's area, while deforested areas amounted to 16 percent. In the past 30 years, the