South America terrestrial ecoregions
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Ecoregions (main)
June 26, 2014, 3:03 pm
The Llanos in Colombia (By Alejo Rendón (David) from Miami, United States (Los Llanos) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons)
South America terrestrial ecoregions include numerous forests, desert biomes, grasslands and scrublands. There are a variety of forest types, including coastal forests, dry forests, moist forests, montane forests, subpolar forests, temperate forests, tropical and subtropical forests.
Individual terrestrial ecoregions
The following distinct terrestrial ecoregions are found in South America
- Araucaria moist forests
- Apure-Villavicencio dry forests
- Argentine Monte
- Atacama desert
- Atlantic dry forests
- Bahia coastal forests
- Beni savanna
- Bolivian Yungas
- Caatinga
- Campos Rupestres montane savanna
- Caqueta moist forests
- Catatumbo moist forests
- Cauca Valley dry forests, Cauca Valley montane forests
- Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests
- Central Andean puna, Central Andean dry puna, Central Andean wet puna
- Cerrado, Biological diversity in the Cerrado
- Cordillera Central páramo
- Cordillera La Costa montane forests
- Córdoba montane savanna
- Chaco, Arid Chaco
- Chiquitano dry forests
- Chocó-Darién moist forests
- Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
- Ecuadorian dry forests
- Fernanda de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests
- Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
- Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
- Guayanan Highlands moist forests
- Guyanan savanna
- Juruá-Purus moist forests
- Lara-Falcón dry forests
- Llanos
- Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
- Magdalena Valley montane forests
- Magellanic subpolar forests
- Maracaibo dry forests
- Mato Grosso tropical dry forests
- Maranhão Babaçu forests
- Napo moist forests
- Paraguana xeric scrub
- Parañá-Paraíba interior forests
- Patagonian steppe
- Patía Valley dry forests
- Pernambuco coastal forests
- Peruvian Yungas
- Rapa Nui and Sala-y-Gomez subtropical broadleaf forests
- Rio Negro campinarana
- San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
- Santa Marta montane forests, Santa Marta páramo
- Sechura desert
- Serra do Mar coastal forests
- Southern Andean steppe
- Southwest Amazon moist forests
- Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
- Tepuis
- Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests
- Tumbes-Piura dry forests
- Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests
- Uruguayan savanna
- Valdivian temperate forests
- Venezuelan Andes montane forests
- Western Ecuador moist forests
- Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests
See also
- Biological diversity in the Atlantic Forest
- Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests
- Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
- Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
