Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

Tumbes-Chocó (red). The lower Magdalena Valley is located in northwestern Colombia

Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is a biodiversity hotspot that encloses tropical rainforests and tropical dry forests on the Pacific coast of South America and the Galápagos Islands . The region stretches from the eastern tip of Panama to the lower valley of the Río Magdalena in Colombia and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to the northwesternmost part of Peru . The region is bounded in the east by the Andes . The Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena hotspot is 1500 km long and has an area of ​​274,597 km².

Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is threatened by settlement, hunting, particularly large birds and mammals, and deforestation , particularly of the coastal mangrove forests . For example, Ecuador's coastal forests have shrunk to just 2 percent of their original area.

Web links

• eoearth.org - Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Conservation International, Biodiversity Hotspots: Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed August 20, 2010)