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Chiquitano dry forests
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
RealmNeotropical
Biometropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests – Amazon
Borders
List
  • Cerrado
  • Dry Chaco
  • Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
  • Pantanal
  • Southwest Amazon moist forests
Geography
Area229,766 km2 (88,713 sq mi)
Countries
  • Brazil
  • Bolivia
Coordinates15°S 62°W / 15°S 62°W / -15; -62
Conservation
Protected55,861 km² (24%)[1]

The Chiquitano dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in Bolivia and Brazil. The ecoregion is named for the Chiquitano people who live in the region.[2]

  1. ^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference wwf was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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