- Huancabamba Depression
The Huancabamba Depression is an east-west depression through the
Andes Mountains of northernPeru . The Huancabamba Depression interrupts the Central and Eastern Cordilleras of the Andes, and theMarañón River and its tributaries drain eastward through the depression into theAmazon basin . Western Cordillera has its lowest point, 2145 meters, at thePaso de Porculla .The Huancabamba Depression is home to the
Marañón dry forests , which form both a biogeographic connection between the lowland forests of the Pacific coast and the Amazon basin, and a biogeographic barrier between theNorthern Andes and theCentral Andes .
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