Ecoregions of Central America

French atoll in the Pacific Ocean

one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms & six floristic kingdoms

thumb|right|Páramos in yellow Páramo () may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountains in South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A narrower term classifies the páramo according to its regional placement in the northern Andes of South America and adjacent southern Central America. The páramo is the ecosystem of the regions above the continuous forest line, yet below the permanent snowline. It is a "Neotropical high mountain biome with a vegetation composed mainly o

protected area in Mexico

ecoregion of Central America

Tropical dry forest ecoregion in Central America

tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico

Terrestrial ecoregion in Central America

Terrestrial ecoegion in Central America

thumb|right|Tumbes-Chocó indicated in red. The lower Magdalena Valley is in north-western Colombia (just north-east of the region marked in red). Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is a biodiversity hotspot, which includes the tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests of the Pacific coast of South America and the Galapagos Islands. The region extends from easternmost Panama to the lower Magdalena Valley of Colombia, and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to the northwestern corner of Peru. Formerly called the Chocó-Darién-Western Ecuador Hotspot, it has been expanded to include several

tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Mexico

ecoregion of southern Mexico and Central America

natural region in Costa Rica and western Panama