Cordillera de la Costa montane forests
| Cordillera de la Costa montane forests (NT0117) | |
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View from Henri Pittier National Park
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| Ecology | |
| Realm | Neotropical |
| Geography | |
| Area | 14,245 km2 (5,500 sq mi) |
| Countries | Venezuela |
| Coordinates | 10°34′16″N 66°38′17″W / 10.571°N 66.638°WCoordinates: 10°34′16″N 66°38′17″W / 10.571°N 66.638°W |
| Climate type | Aw equatorial, winter dry |
The Cordillera de la Costa montane forests (NT0117) is a montane ecoregion of the Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest Biome, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) on the Caribbean Sea in northern Venezuela.
The Cordillera de la Costa montane forests extend across a series of isolated coastal mountains with an area of 1,424,493 hectares (3,520,000 acres). Most parts of the ecoregion are surrounded by La Costa xeric shrublands. In the west, the ecoregion adjoins Lara-Falcón dry forests. The two most eastern segments are surrounded by Araya and Paria xeric scrub.
The Cordillera de la Costa montane forests ecoregion consists of eleven enclaves between 600–2,675 metres (1,969–8,776 ft) in elevation. The Venezuelan Coastal Range, which is actually two parallel ranges, runs east and west across northern Venezuela, separating the Orinoco River basin to the south from the Caribbean Sea to the north. The range consists of western and eastern sections. The Coastal Range is a northeastern extension of the Andes Mountains, separated from the Cordillera de Mérida to the southwest by the Yaracuy Depression. These forest enclaves are surrounded at lower elevations by the dry La Costa xeric shrublands, and are separated from both the moist forests of the Andes and of Amazonia by dry shrublands and the vast Llanos grasslands of the Orinoco basin.
The Köppen climate classification is "Aw": equatorial, winter dry.
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