Resumo. ABSTRACTThe Brazilian Cerrado vegetation comprises a mosaic of natural types, from open fields to savannas andforests. It is believed that the presence of different vegetation types in a region can be explained in part by thedirect relationship with the attributes present in the same soil. The present study investigated the relationshipbetween soil and vegetation in an area of Cerrado biome with influence of Urucuia Group. To do so, weconducted a survey of soils and vegetation in 1:50,000 scale in an area ofapproximately 32,000 hectareslocated in the tri-border region of Minas Gerais, Goiás and Bahia states, with the sandstone substrate ofUrucuia Group. The analytical results of soil classes were related to the present data of the physiognomiesthrough common statistical analysis and through the determination of the main components. The soils ofthe region reflected well the source material, with high percentages of sand, with a predominance of Oxisol Hapludox and Oxisol dystrophic, present in over 35% of the entire study area. The most common vegetationtype was Cerrado sense, restrict and typical. The principal component analysis indicated that the fine sand,clay and aluminum accounted for 93.7% of the variability of the relationship between soils and vegetationtype