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The Pacific Equatorial Forest (also known as the Pacific Forest of Ecuador) is a tropical forest ecosystem located along Ecuador's coastal mountain range at 0° latitude, primarily concentrated in northwestern Manabí. The ecosystem is most notable for its high diversity of forest types in unusually close proximity.
The Western Ecuador Moist Forests (NT0178), also known as the Pacific Forest of Ecuador, is an ecoregion in the plains and western foothills of the Andes of southern Colombia and Ecuador. At one time this region contained dense forests with highly diverse flora and fauna, and many endemic species.
The Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve (Reserva Ecológica Jama-Coaque) is a 2,100-acre (850 hectare) protected area of Pacific Equatorial Forest in coastal Ecuador.It is one of the last significant remnants of tropical moist forest and premontane cloud forest in the region between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean in Ecuador.
The forest fragments that still survive are primarily found along the coastal mountain ranges of Mache-Chindul, Jama-Coaque, and Chongon-Colonche, and include tropical dry forest, tropical wet forest, tropical moist evergreen forest, premontane cloud forest, and mangrove forest. Collectively known as the Pacific Equatorial Forest, these forest ...
Mangroves are found along the coast of Manabí Province in Ecuador (NT1418). [5] They are also found between Ecuador and Peru where many rivers empty into the Pacific and the Gulf of Guayaquil (NT1413). [6] In Panama the mangroves are found along the Pacific coast of the Panamanian dry forests and Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests ecoregions.
2.1 Tropical Eastern Pacific. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... Western Ecuador moist forests; Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests