Vegetation landscape
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This is the vegetation landscape map containing the details about the vegetation forms in Peru.
Tropical rain forest
Mountain rain forest
Mountain tall grass scrub
Mountain short grasses and alpine wastes
Coastal Desert and scrub
- can clearly see the contrast between Peru's coast, mountain and jungle regions
- coastal strip (yellow), largely desery and scrubland
- tropical savanna, mangrove swamps and dry forests exist along the far north coast
- highland area (brown) consists primarily of grassland, srub and alpine wastes
- unlike dry coastal strip to the west of the Andes (lies within a rain shadow area), the eastern hills remain green and moist
- area of cloud forest and upland jungle is known as the selva alta (high jungle) or ceja de selva (eyebrow to the jugle)
Tropical rain forest
- half of Peru if forested - more than 80% is classified as primary forest
- FAO estimates country loses around 224, 000 to 300, 000 hectares of forest per year.
- has some 2, 937 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptils
- of these, 16% are only found in peru and 7.6% of that are threatened
- home to at least 17, 144 species of vascular plants, which 31.2% are only found in Peru as well
Mountain rain forest
- high Selva is dry to the west and is deeply forested on the east side
- as altitude decreases the scenery begins to change
- steep mountain slopes lead to relative flatlands of an altitude of 500 feet or 150 feet
- within thes slopes, valleys, rivers rapids, canyons and high waterfalls are to be found
- more than 20% of the worlds butterflys species live in this region
Mountain tall grass scrub
- consists of tall grasses, scrub, bushes
- dry land area
- relatively flat lands
Mountain short grasses and alpine wastes
- consists of small grasses
- flat lands
- not much vegetation
Coastal Desert and scrub
- not much life in the desert
- average less than 10 inches of precipitation a year
- temperature exceed 100 degrees F on summer afternoon
- dip by 20-30 degress or more at night
- cold winters, hot summers