Life zones of Peru
When the Spanish arrived, they divided Peru (very simplistically) into three main regions: the coastal region (11.6% of Peru), that is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; the highlands (28.1% of Peru), that is located on the Andean Heights, and the jungle, that is located on the Amazonian Jungle (Climate of Peru). But Javier Pulgar Vidal (), a geographer who studied the biogeographic reality of the Peruvian territory for a long time, proposed the creation of eight Natural Regions. In 1941, he presented his thesis "Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú" at the III General Assembly of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History.
These eight Peruvian regions are:
(the warmest month has an average temperature of below 22°C or 72°F).
(the warmest month has an average temperature of below 18°C or 64°F).
(the definition of treeline of Coniferae: the warmest month has an average temperature of below 10°C or 50°F ).
Terrestrial Biome Type 10: Montane grasslands and shrublands
(just warmer than -1°C over rocks or just warmer than -3°C over snow, annual mean temperature).
The Peruvian geographer Javier Pulgar Vidal divided Peru in 8 regions (traditionally, it was costa, sierra and selva):
Map from República del Perú - Instituto Geográfico Nacional
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Explanations:
Altitudinal zonation: Kallawaya Region, around Charazani, Bolivia (border to Peru).
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