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TheChocó is a biogeographic region Neotropical (wet) located at Darién Province east of Panama to the Pacific coast of west of Colombia and northwest Ecuador and the north end of Peru, theChocó also includes the region of Urabá, a stretch of coast Caribbean in northwestern Colombia and north of Panama, and the valley of the Magdalena River and its tributaries - Nechí and St. George.

The Chocó covers 200,000 km 2 . The land is a mosaic of fluvio-marine plains, alluvial plains, narrow valleys and steep, rugged mountains, to an altitude of ca. 4,000 m asl in Colombia and 5,000 m asl in Ecuador. Floodplains are young, dynamic and highly developed San Juan Atrato, San Jorge, Cauca - Nechí and Magdalena.

The climate is the wettest in the world and its most humid in the municipality of Lopez de Micay precisely recorded in the municipal 13.000mm per year at any point in the region is less than 3 m / year and in some places can reach 16 m / year. The wept in Colombia is considered the wettest place on earth.

The high rainfall, tropical conditions and isolation (separation of the Amazon Basin by Andes) have contributed to making the regionChocó one of the most diverse in the world: 9,000 species of vascular plants, 200 mammals, 600 birds, 100 reptiles 120 of amphibians. There is a high level of endemism: approximately 25% of species of plants and animals.

Conservation

Approximately 6.3% of El Choco is protected byEcological Reserves and National Parks. Efforts are underway to connect these protected areas and form a continuous conservation corridor extending from Panama to Peru. Many organizations are also working to strengthen the protection of existing parks and reserves to ensure its future conservation

Geostrategic importance

Persist in this geographical area in Colombia two major projects: the construction of the missing from the Pan-American Highway to join North with South America , through the so-calledDarien Gap'. And the construction of a canal that makes use of the Rio Atrato and allow the transit of larger vessels (relative to Panama Canal (2006)) between the Ocean Atlantic and Pacific.

See also

References

  1. Hernández-Camacho, J., H. Sánchez-Páez. 1992. Terrestrial biomes of Colombia. pp :153-173 in: G. Halffter (editor). 1992. The Ibero-American Biodiversity I. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, CYTED-D, Mexico. 390 pp. + 3 maps. ISBN 968-7213-31-0.
  2. Rodriguez, J.P., M.A. Oliveira-Miranda, R. Lazo, S. Zambrano-Martinez, E. Tapiquén, A. Ruiz, E.E. Gutierrez, M. Armas, L. Gerik, L.A. Solórzano and F. Rojas-Suarez. 2005. Conservation Geography of the tropical Andes: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Version 1.0, CD ROM and online. International Center for Tropical Ecology (CIET), Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Venezuela Conservation International and UNESCO. Caracas, Venezuela. Available at: http://ecosig.ivic.ve

TheChocó is a conservation priority area for many international conservation organizations

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