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The Santa Marta montane forests (NT0159) is an ecoregion in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a massif on the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia. The ecoregion covers altitudes from near sea level up to around 3,300 metres (10,827 ft), where it gives way to Santa Marta páramo.
The Santa Marta montane forests lie above 500 to 800 m (1,640 to 2,625 ft). The montane forests are separated from other moist forests by the lower-elevation dry forests and xeric shrublands, and have large numbers of endemic species. The montane forest ecoregion has several distinct plant communities, distinguished by altitude and rainfall ...
The Santa Marta páramo has an area of 129,499 hectares (320,000 acres). It covers the upper levels of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the north of Colombia. [1] This is a roughly triangular massif with its north side parallel to the Caribbean sea, the southwest side facing the swamps of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta and the southeast side facing the Serranía del Perijá mountains ...
The Northern Andean páramo ecoregion is in the neotropical realm, in the montane grasslands and shrublands biome. [1] The ecoregion is part of the Northern Andean Paramo global ecoregion, which also includes the Cordillera Central páramo, Santa Marta páramo and Cordillera de Merida páramo terrestrial ecoregions. The plants and animals are ...
Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests; Eastern Panamanian montane forests; Guayanan Highlands moist forests; Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests; Magdalena Valley montane forests; Magdalena–Urabá moist forests; Napo moist forests; Negro–Branco moist forests; Northwestern Andean montane forests; Rio Negro campinarana; Santa Marta ...
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta — a mountain range in the northern Tropical Andes System, located near the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
It is part of the Northern Andean Montane Forests global ecoregion, which includes the Magdalena Valley montane forests, Venezuelan Andes montane forests, Northwestern Andean montane forests, Cauca Valley montane forests, Cordillera Oriental montane forests, Santa Marta montane forests and Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests terrestrial ...
S. Santa Marta montane forests; Sayan montane conifer forests; Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands; Selva Zoque; Shola; Sierra de la Laguna pine–oak forests