List of ecoregions in Peru

This is a list of ecoregions in Peru.

Terrestrial Peru is in the Neotropical realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.Dinerstein, Eric; David Olson; Douglas J. Graham; et al. (1995). A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington DC.

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Bolivian Yungas Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests Iquitos várzea Napo moist forests Peruvian Yungas Solimões–Japurá moist forests Southwest Amazon moist forests Ucayali moist forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

Marañón dry forests Tumbes–Piura dry forests

Montane grasslands and shrublands Central Andean dry puna Central Andean puna Central Andean wet puna Cordillera Central páramo

Deserts and xeric shrublands Atacama Desert Sechura Desert

Mangroves Gulf of Guayaquil–Tumbes mangroves Piura mangroves

Marine Peru is at the intersection of two marine realms, Temperate South America and the Tropical Eastern Pacific.Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583.

Temperate South America Central Peru Humboldtian

Tropical Eastern Pacific Guayaquil

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