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For the purposes of this category, Ecuador is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions; that is, it is as politically defined except that Galápagos is treated as distinct. For the flora of Galápagos, see Category:Flora of the Galápagos Islands, which is not a subcategory of this category.
Straddled across the Andes on the most westerly point of South America, Ecuador is about half size of France (271,000 sq.km/103,000 sq. Miles) making the smallest of the Andean countries. The Andean mountain chain divides the country into three distinct regions: the coastal plain known as the costa, the Andean mountains, or sierra, and the ...
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For the purposes of this category, "South America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Southern America, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions: Flora of Central America; Flora of the Caribbean; Flora of northern South ...
The Ecuadorian dry forests have an area of 2,123,790 hectares (5,248,000 acres). The ecoregion is mainly along the Pacific coast of central Ecuador to the north and west of Guayaquil, with a section to the east of Guayaquil. [2] The western area is in the Cordillera de la Costa (Coastal Range) mountains. [3]
Flora of Ecuador (7 C, 1,471 P) Flora of the Amazon (1 C, 97 P) Fungi of Ecuador (1 C, 5 P) L. Lichens of Ecuador (38 P) This page was last edited on 29 November ...
The Endemic flora of Ecuador For the purposes of this category, Ecuador is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ; that is, it is as politically defined except that Galápagos is treated as distinct.
Puya is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae.It is the sole genus of the subfamily Puyoideae, and is composed of 226 species. [1] [2] These terrestrial plants are native to the Andes Mountains of South America and southern Central America.