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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 Pacific slope forests in Peru have a dry, seasonal climate and are mostly small patches of woods with relatively few species, but several endemic species. On the eastern, Amazon side of the Andes the montane forests start around 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) and receive plentiful rainfall from moist air from the Amazon basin.
The Chocó–Darién moist forests (NT0115) is a largely forested, tropical ecoregion of northwestern South America and southern Central America.The ecoregion extends from the eastern Panamanian province of Darién and the indigenous region of Guna Yala to almost the entirety of Colombia's Pacific coast, including the departments of Cauca, Chocó, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
The Pacific Region is located on Colombia's western, Pacific coast, and covers an area of 83,170 km 2 (32,110 sq mi). It extends from the Gulf of Urabá in the north to the border with Ecuador in the south, and includes part of the departments of Nariño, Cauca and Valle de Cauca, and the whole of Chocó Department.
The Pacific region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the West Andes to the east. To the north is the Darién Gap and the Serranía del Darién at the border with Panama. The area is mostly flat and covered by dense rainforest, rivers, swamps, and mangroves. The Baudó Mountains are a small, isolated range in this area along the ...
The WWF considers these lowlands a part of the neighbouring Central Pacific coastal forests ecoregion. The landscape features glacially striated tablelands and rolling hills underlain by sedimentary rocks. The majority of soils in the depression are formed from glacial till, glacial outwash, and Lacustrine deposits. [2]
The terminator is visible in this panoramic view across central South America. The geography of South America contains many diverse regions and climates. Geographically, South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the landmass of the Americas, south and east of the Colombia–Panama border by most ...
The bend occurs at the latitude of Cochabamba and corresponds to eastward projection of the Arica elbow, the bend of South America's coastline at the Peru-Chile border. North of the bend Cordillera Central's batholiths are northwest-southeast oriented while south of it they are north-south oriented. [ 10 ]