List of ecoregions in Venezuela explained

The following is a list of ecoregions in Venezuela as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Terrestrial

Venezuela is in the Neotropical realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.^[1]

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

• Catatumbo moist forests
• Cordillera de la Costa montane forests
• Cordillera Oriental montane forests
• Guayanan Highlands moist forests
• Guianan moist forests
• Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests
• Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests
• Negro–Branco moist forests
• Orinoco Delta swamp forests
• Tepuis
• Venezuelan Andes montane forests

Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

• Apure–Villavicencio dry forests
• Lara–Falcón dry forests
• Maracaibo dry forests

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

• Guianan savanna
• Llanos

Flooded grasslands and savannas

• Orinoco wetlands

Montane grasslands and shrublands

• Cordillera de Merida páramo

Deserts and xeric shrublands

• Araya and Paria xeric scrub
• Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrub
• La Costa xeric shrublands
• Paraguana xeric scrub

Mangroves

• Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
• Guianan mangroves

Marine

Tropical Atlantic

• Guianian
• Southern Caribbean^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. 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.