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Blackland PrairieTexas Blackland Prairie is the Texas part of the North American Blackland Prairie ecoregion.It generally runs from the Red River in north Texas to San Antonio in the south. The NA Blackland Prairie runs from Manitoba, Canada and is a tallgrass continuium of grasslands which, due to their soils and weather are ideal for farmlands. In Texas it consists of a main belt of 43,000 km² and two islands of grasslands southeast of the main Blackland Prairie belt. The First island is the Fayette Prairie encompassing 17,000 km² and the second is the San Antonio Prairie of 7,000 km². The Mainbelt consists of oaklands and savanas and runs north, eastern and northwest Texas. The two islands are separated from the mainbelt by the Oakwoodlands of the east Central Texas Forests.
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