Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is a
Andes Mountains. The Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Hotspot is 1,500 km long and encircles 274,597 km2. Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena is near the Pacific Ocean. The factors that threaten Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena are farming encroachment, deforestation, illegal crops, and population growth. Whereas the Panamanian and Colombian portion of the hotspot are relatively intact, approximately 98% of native forest in coastal Ecuador has been cleared, rendering it the most threatened tropical forest in the world.[1] The hotspot includes a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangroves, beaches, rocky shorelines, and coastal wilderness to some of the world's wettest rain forests in the Colombian Chocó. The hotspot includes a number of ecoregions
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- 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)
Some of the endemic species of this hotspot are the following:
Endemic Plant Species: 2,750
Endemic Threatened Birds: 21
Endemic Threatened Mammals: 7
Endemic Threatened Amphibians: 8
Human Population Density (people/km2): 51
References
- ^ "Global Biodiversity Hotspots". Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena. Conservation International. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
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