The Bahia interior forests cover an area of 230,000 square kilometers (89,000 sq mi), extending across portions of Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Sergipe states.

The Bahia interior forests extend north to the São Francisco River, where they lie much closer to the coast, and are bounded on the west by the dry Caatinga shrublands.

[2] In this ecoregion is found a highly threatened species, the "Brazilian rosewood" (Dalbergia nigra).

Most forests remnants has less than 10 km2, and even these are currently under strong pressure from anthropogenic activities, as fires, illegal deforestation and predatory hunting.

The largest forest remnant of this ecoregion is the Rio Doce State Park, with 359 km2 of area.