Corumbá2 Pantanal towns are now officially classed as dry.

Before, only the Northeast, northern Minas Gerais and northwest Espírito Santo carried that label.

Brazil’s 2025-2045 desertification plan puts Corumbá and Ladário at 0.5-0.65 on an aridity index, rain divided by evaporative demand, for 1990-2020.

Corumbá’s 2.1 million-plus cattle anchor its rural economy, and the plan runs to 2045.

How each outlet framed it
Agência Pública
shows the Brazilian plan reclassifying Corumbá and Ladário as dry sub-humid, a change from the 2004 plan that the INPE and Cemaden study had already flagged in 2023

Sources: Agência Pública