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Central American Atlantic Moist Forests
The Central American Atlantic moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0111) covers the lowland coastal forests of Honduras, southeast Guatemala, and the eastern forests of Nicaragua. Half of the ecoregion is closed-canopy tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, with tree heights reaching 50 meters. This ecoregion has the largest single fragment of natural forest in Central America, with a size of . The total area is . Location and description The ecoregion stretches for 700 km from the valley of Lake Izabal in southeastern Guatemala, across the northern coast of Honduras (in a 50 km wide strip), and down across most of the eastern half of Nicaragua. The mean elevation is , with a maximum of . Climate The climate of the ecoregion is ''Tropical monsoon climate'' (Köppen climate classification Tropical monsoon climate, (Am)). This climate is characterized by relatively even temperatures throughout the year (all months being greater than average temperature), and a pronounced dry se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical Realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora. Its fauna and flora are distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Monsoon Climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ''Am''. Tropical monsoon climates have monthly mean temperatures above in every month of the year and a dry season. The tropical monsoon climate is the intermediate climate between the wet Af (or tropical rainforest climate) and the drier Aw (or tropical savanna climate). A tropical monsoon climate's driest month has on average less than 60 mm, but more than 100-\left(\frac\right). This is in direct contrast to a tropical savanna climate, whose driest month has less than 60 mm of precipitation and also less than 100-\left(\frac\right) of average monthly precipitation. In essence, a tropical monsoon climate tends to either have more rainfall than a tropical savanna climate or have less pronounced dry seasons. A tropical monsoon c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montaña De Yoro National Park
Montañade Yoro National Park (previously named Montaña de Yoro National Park) is a national park in Honduras. It was established on 1 January 1987 and covers an area of 154.8 square kilometres. It has an altitude of between 1,800 and 2,245 metres. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Montana de Yoro National Park National parks of Honduras Protected areas established in 1987 Central American Atlantic moist forests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montaña De Botaderos Carlos Escaleras Mejía National Park
Montana or Montaña is the surname of: * Allison Montana (1922–2005), New Orleans cultural icon who acted as the Mardi Gras Indian "chief of chiefs" * Amber Montana (born 1998), American actress * Billy Montana (born 1959), American country music singer-songwriter * Bob Montana (1920-1975), cartoonist who drew the characters that launched Archie Comics * Claude Montana (born 1949), French fashion designer * Francisco Montana (born 1969), American tennis player * Freddy Montaña (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist * Gentil Montaña (1942–2011), classical guitarist and composer * Íñigo López Montaña (born 1982), Spanish footballer * Joe Montana (born 1956), American Hall-of-Fame retired National Football League quarterback * Jordi Montaña, Spanish academic * Jorge López Montaña (born 1978), Spanish retired footballer * José Fernández Montaña, (1842–1935), Spanish priest, jurist, linguist and historian * John C. Montana (1893–1964), American mobster and city pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusuco National Park
Cusuco National Park is a national park in Honduras. It was established on 1 January 1959 and covers an area of . Cusuco National Park is a protected area in the Merendon mountains of northwest Honduras. The park ranges from just above sea level in the west to in the middle. The park comprises a core zone surrounded by a buffer zone. Cusuco encompasses several major habitats, including semi-arid pine forest, moist pine forest, moist broadleaf forest and dwarf forest (''bosque enano'') at elevations above . The park is part of the Meso-American biodiversity hotspot (Conservation International 2006), a region characterised by exceptional species richness. Cusuco also has great diversity of habitats and high beta diversity in many groups due to the large elevational gradients in the park. Cusuco supports exceptional biodiversity. Some of the key features of the park include the globally threatened taxa which the park protects - especially amphibians (table 1), Baird's tapir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuevas De Silvino National Park
Cuevas del Silvino is a limestone cave system in Guatemala. It is located at km 260 on the road connecting Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, in the municipality of Morales Morales is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfredo Morales (born 1990), American footballer * Alvaro Morales (other), several people * Amado Morales (born 1947), Puerto Rican javelin thrower * Bartolomé Mor ... in the department of Izabal. The Silvino cave system was declared a national park in 1972. References National parks of Guatemala Caves of Guatemala Limestone caves Protected areas established in 1972 Central American Atlantic moist forests {{NorthAm-protected-area-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chocón Machacas
The Chocón Machacas Protected Biotope is a protected nature reserve in eastern Guatemala. It is located in the municipality of Livingston, in a densely forested area covering the lower reaches of the Chocón Machacas River The Chocón Machacas River is a river in eastern Guatemala. The sources of the riverCastillo Lemus: 12 are on the eastern slopes of the Sierra de Santa Cruz (Guatemala), Sierra de Santa Cruz at . From there it flows in a generally west-south-west d ... basin and the northern shores of the Río Dulce- Golfete Dulce system (). The Chocón Machacas river and Golfete Dulce complex form one of Guatemala's few remaining habitats for the endangered Caribbean manatee ('' Trichechus manatus''). References * * Protected areas of Guatemala Protected areas established in 1989 Central American Atlantic moist forests {{NorthAm-protected-area-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Saslaya National Park
Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: *Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul * Cerro Largo, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul ;Chile * Cerro de Los Inocentes, in the Juan Fernández Islands ;Cuba: * Cerro, Havana, a district (''municipio'') ;Italy: * Cerro (Bottanuco), a subdivision of Bottanuco in the province of Bergamo * Cerro al Lambro, in the province of Milano * Cerro al Volturno, in the province of Isernia * Cerro Maggiore, in the province of Milano *Cerro Tanaro, in the province of Asti * Cerro Veronese, in the province of Verona ;Mexico: * Cerro Potosí ;United States: * Cerro, New Mexico ;Uruguay: * Cerro Largo Department * Villa del Cerro, in Montevideo * Fortaleza del Cerro, in Montevideo Football clubs * C.A. Cerro, a football club from Montevideo, Uruguay * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro Azul National Park
Cerro is Spanish for "hill" or "mountain". Toponyms ;Bolivia: * Cerro Rico, the "Rich Mountain" containing silver ore near Potosi, Bolivia ;Brazil: *Cerro Branco, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul *Cerro Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul * Cerro Largo, a municipality of Rio Grande do Sul ;Chile * Cerro de Los Inocentes, in the Juan Fernández Islands ;Cuba: * Cerro, Havana, a district (''municipio'') ;Italy: * Cerro (Bottanuco), a subdivision of Bottanuco in the province of Bergamo * Cerro al Lambro, in the province of Milano * Cerro al Volturno, in the province of Isernia * Cerro Maggiore, in the province of Milano *Cerro Tanaro, in the province of Asti * Cerro Veronese, in the province of Verona ;Mexico: * Cerro Potosí ;United States: * Cerro, New Mexico ;Uruguay: * Cerro Largo Department * Villa del Cerro, in Montevideo * Fortaleza del Cerro, in Montevideo Football clubs * C.A. Cerro, a football club from Montevideo, Uruguay * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capiro-Calentura National Park
Capiro Calentura National Park is a national park in Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce .... It was established in 1992 and covers an area of 81 square kilometres. References {{authority control National parks of Honduras Protected areas established in 1992 1992 establishments in Honduras Central American Atlantic moist forests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosawás Biosphere Reserve
The Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in the northern part of state Jinotega (border with Honduras), Nicaragua is a hilly tropical forest designated in 1997 as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. At approximately 20,000 km² (2 million hectares) in size, the reserve (i.e. nucleus plus buffer zone) comprises about 15% of the nation's total land area. Combined with the biosphere of the banana river in Honduras, which is continguous with the jungle of the Bosawás reserve, it is the second largest rainforest in the Western Hemisphere, after the Amazon in Brazil. Bosawás is largely unexplored, and is extremely rich in biodiversity. History Bosawás overlaps the homelands of two of Nicaragua's indigenous peoples, the Mayangna and the Miskito, in an area which is rich in natural resources, most notably timber and gold. About 130,000 inhabitants practice subsistence farming within the boundaries, about 35,000 of them indigenous Miskito and Mayangna people. The Bosawás Biosphere Reserve developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanca Jeannette Kawas National Park
Jeannette Kawas National Park ( es, Parque Nacional Jeannette Kawas) is a national park located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras, established on 4 November 1994. The park covers an area of 781.62 square kilometres and has an altitude of 900 metres. The park was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat). History The park was established on 4 November 1994, originally named Punta Sal National Park. It was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat). Its name was changed to Jeannette Kawas National Park in honor of Jeannette Kawas, an environmental activist and PROLANSATE president who was murdered on February 6, 1995 for her work trying to keep the palm plantations out of the park. Jeannette Kawas National Park is part of the Ramsar Convention List of Wetlands of International Importance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
