
Brazil: number of wildfires in the Legal Amazon 2005-2021
The Legal Amazon (or Amazônia Legal, in Portuguese) is an area comprising the territory of nine Brazilian states in the Amazon basin: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins. Altogether, it occupies more than five million square kilometers.