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Sinaloan dry forests
View from Acatitán, Sinaloa, Mexico
The map of Sinaloan dry forests ecoregion
Ecology
RealmNeotropical
Biometropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders
List
  • Bajío dry forests
  • Central Mexican matorral
  • Jalisco dry forests
  • Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves
  • Meseta Central matorral
  • Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
  • Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forests
  • Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests
Geography
Area77,201 km2 (29,807 sq mi)
CountryMexico
States
  • Sinaloa
  • Nayarit
  • Chihuahua
  • Jalisco,
  • Sonora
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Global 200Mexican dry forests
Protected7,815 km2 (10%)[2]

The Sinaloan dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in western Mexico. It is the northernmost ecoregion of the Neotropical realm.

  1. ^ "Sinaloan dry forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric [in German]; Olson, David; Joshi, Anup; et al. (2017-04-05). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. ISSN 0006-3568. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.

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