- Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is a
biodiversity hotspot , which includes the tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests of the Pacific coast ofSouth America and theGalapagos Islands . The region extends from easternmostPanama to the lowerMagdalena River valley ofColombia , and along the Pacific coast of Colombia andEcuador to the northwestern corner ofPeru . It is bounded on the east by theAndes Mountains . The Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Hotspot is 1,500 km. long and encircles 274,597 sq. km. Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena is near the Pacific Ocean. The factors that threaten Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena are things like farming encroachment, loss of the forests, illegal crops, and population growth.The hotspot includes a number ofecoregion s:*
Chocó-Darién moist forests (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama)
*Ecuadorian dry forests (Ecuador)
*Guayaquil flooded grasslands (Ecuador)
*Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves (Ecuador, Peru)
*Galápagos Islands xeric scrub (Ecuador)
*Magdalena Valley montane forests (Colombia)
*Magdalena-Urabá moist forests (Colombia)
*Manabí mangroves (Ecuador)
*Tumbes-Piura dry forests (Ecuador, Peru)
*Piura mangroves (Peru)
*Western Ecuador moist forests (Colombia, Ecuador)External links
* [http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/tumbes_choco/Pages/default.aspx Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena (Conservation International)]
* [http://www.biodiversityscience.org/publications/hotspots/tumbes.html Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena (Hotspots Revisited)]
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