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.

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.

Temperate South America

• Central Peru
• Humboldtian

Tropical Eastern Pacific

• Guayaquil

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