en.unionpedia.org

Marañón dry forests, the Glossary

40 relations: Alan García, Amazon River, Andes, Atelopus pachydermus, Cauca Valley dry forests, Ceiba insignis, Chiriaco River, Cordillera Central páramo, Cordillera de Colán National Sanctuary, Cumba District, Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests, Ecoregion, Ecuadorian dry forests, Eriotheca peruviana, Huancabamba River, Hura crepitans, Jaén, Peru, Köppen climate classification, Krameria lappacea, Magdalena Valley dry forests, Marañón River, Marañón spinetail, Maraniona, Neotropical realm, Parkinsonia praecox, Patía Valley dry forests, Peru, Peruvian Yungas, Praecereus euchlorus, Pucará District, Jaén, Rauhocereus, Rio Abiseo National Park, Tayabamba District, Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Tumbes–Piura dry forests, Ucayali moist forests, Ucayali River, Utcubamba (river), Vachellia macracantha, Yellow-bellied seedeater.
Ecoregions of Peru
Neotropical dry broadleaf forests

Alan García

Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011.

See Marañón dry forests and Alan García

The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Amazon River

Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

See Marañón dry forests and Andes

Atelopus pachydermus

Atelopus pachydermus is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.

See Marañón dry forests and Atelopus pachydermus

Cauca Valley dry forests

The Cauca Valley dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in Colombia. Marañón dry forests and Cauca Valley dry forests are Neotropical dry broadleaf forests.

See Marañón dry forests and Cauca Valley dry forests

Ceiba insignis

Ceiba insignis (syn. Chorisia insignis), the white floss-silk tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to dry tropical forests of southern Ecuador and northern Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Ceiba insignis

Chiriaco River

The Chiriaco (from Quechua Chiri Yaku, chiri cold, yaku water, "cold water") is a river in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Chiriaco River

Cordillera Central páramo

The Cordillera Central páramo (NT1004) is an ecoregion containing páramo (high moorland) vegetation above the treeline in the Andes mountain range of northern Peru and southern Ecuador. Marañón dry forests and Cordillera Central páramo are ecoregions of Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Cordillera Central páramo

Cordillera de Colán National Sanctuary

Cordillera de Colán National Sanctuary (Santuario Nacional Cordillera de Colán) is a protected area in Peru located in the Amazonas Region, in the Bagua and Utcubamba provinces.

See Marañón dry forests and Cordillera de Colán National Sanctuary

Cumba District

Cumba District is one of seven districts of the province Utcubamba in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Cumba District

Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests

The Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests (NT0121) is an ecoregion in the eastern range of the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru. Marañón dry forests and eastern Cordillera Real montane forests are ecoregions of Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests

Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

See Marañón dry forests and Ecoregion

Ecuadorian dry forests

The Ecuadorian dry forests (NT0214) is an ecoregion near the Pacific coast of the Ecuador. Marañón dry forests and Ecuadorian dry forests are Neotropical dry broadleaf forests.

See Marañón dry forests and Ecuadorian dry forests

Eriotheca peruviana

Eriotheca peruviana is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae.

See Marañón dry forests and Eriotheca peruviana

Huancabamba River

The Huancabamba River ("Stony Plain" in the Quechua language) in the Pasco Region of Peru has its origin in the confluence of several small rivers near the town of Oxapampa: the Chontabamba, the Llamaquizú, and the Esperanza rivers.

See Marañón dry forests and Huancabamba River

Hura crepitans

Hura crepitans, the sandbox tree, also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America including the Amazon rainforest.

See Marañón dry forests and Hura crepitans

Jaén, Peru

Jaén, founded as San Leandro de Jaén and then known as Jerez de la Frontera (later Nueva Jerez de la Frontera) and finally as Jaén de Bracamoros since April 1549, is a city which is the capital of the Jaén Province in the Cajamarca Region in Peru, located in the high jungle of northern Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Jaén, Peru

Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

See Marañón dry forests and Köppen climate classification

Krameria lappacea

Krameria lappacea, the para rhatany and Peruvian rhatany, is a plant species in the genus Krameria, in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Krameria lappacea

Magdalena Valley dry forests

The Magdalena Valley dry forests (NT0221) is an ecoregion in Colombia along the upper Magdalena River, a large river that runs from south to north between the two main cordilleras of the Andes. Marañón dry forests and Magdalena Valley dry forests are Neotropical dry broadleaf forests.

See Marañón dry forests and Magdalena Valley dry forests

Marañón River

The Marañón River (Río Marañón) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m (12,000 feet) high, it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5° 36′ southern latitude; from where it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the jungle Ande in its midcourse, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows into the flat Amazon basin.

See Marañón dry forests and Marañón River

Marañón spinetail

The Maranon spinetail (Synallaxis maranonica) is a Critically Endangered species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

See Marañón dry forests and Marañón spinetail

Maraniona

Maraniona lavinii is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.

See Marañón dry forests and Maraniona

Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.

See Marañón dry forests and Neotropical realm

Parkinsonia praecox

Parkinsonia praecox (syn. Cercidium praecox), the palo brea or Sonoran palo verde, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

See Marañón dry forests and Parkinsonia praecox

Patía Valley dry forests

The Patía Valley dry forests (NT0225) is an ecoregion in southwestern Colombia. Marañón dry forests and Patía Valley dry forests are Neotropical dry broadleaf forests.

See Marañón dry forests and Patía Valley dry forests

Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

See Marañón dry forests and Peru

Peruvian Yungas

The Peruvian Yungas comprise a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Peru. Marañón dry forests and Peruvian Yungas are ecoregions of Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Peruvian Yungas

Praecereus euchlorus

Praecereus euchlorus is a flowering plant in the family Cactaceae that is found in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay at elevations of 700 to 1300 meters.

See Marañón dry forests and Praecereus euchlorus

Pucará District, Jaén

Pucará District is one of twelve districts of the province Jaén in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Pucará District, Jaén

Rauhocereus

Rauhocereus is a monotypic genus of cacti (family Cactaceae).

See Marañón dry forests and Rauhocereus

Rio Abiseo National Park

The Rio Abiseo National Park (Parque Nacional del Río Abiseo) is located in the San Martín department of Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Rio Abiseo National Park

Tayabamba District

Tayabamba or Tayapampa (Quechua taya a kind of plant, pampa a large plain) is one of thirteen districts of the province Pataz in Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Tayabamba District

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes.

See Marañón dry forests and Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Tumbes–Piura dry forests

The Tumbes–Piura dry forests (NT0232) is an arid tropical ecoregion along the Pacific coasts of southern Ecuador and northern Peru. Marañón dry forests and Tumbes–Piura dry forests are ecoregions of Peru and Neotropical dry broadleaf forests.

See Marañón dry forests and Tumbes–Piura dry forests

Ucayali moist forests

The Ucayali moist forests (NT0174) is an ecoregion in the western Amazon rainforest of Peru. Marañón dry forests and Ucayali moist forests are ecoregions of Peru.

See Marañón dry forests and Ucayali moist forests

Ucayali River

The Ucayali River (Río Ucayali) is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city. The city of Pucallpa is located on the banks of the Ucayali.

See Marañón dry forests and Ucayali River

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marañón_dry_forests

Marañón dry forests, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Ecoregions of Peru

Neotropical dry broadleaf forests

References