Mexican dry forests facts for kids
Mexican dry forest describes a number of ecoregions of Mexico within the dry broadleaf forest Biome. Together they constitute a World Wildlife Fund Global 200 priority ecoregions area for conservation.
Ecoregions
The area includes the dry forest ecoregions of Mexico's Pacific Ocean Coast from Sinaloa and the southern Baja California peninsula south to Guatemala.
North to south, they include:
- Jalisco dry forests
- Balsas dry forests
- Bajío dry forests
- Chiapas Depression dry forests
- Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest,
- Southern Pacific dry forests
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Sierra de la Laguna dry forests.
See also
In Spanish: Bosques secos mexicanos para niños
- Ecoregions of Mexico
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