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Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves

Bioma

Mangroves

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Reino biogeográfico

Neotropic

Canal bordeado de manglares en el Parque Nacional Morrocoy, Venezuela.

Foto de la región - Jorge Moyeja / Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 3.0; attribution required.

Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves

Los manglares del Amazonas-Orinoco-Caribe Sur forman una vasta ecorregión costera del Neotrópico, que bordea las costas caribeñas de Colombia y Venezuela y las costas atlánticas de Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, la Guayana Francesa y el noreste de Brasil, incluidos los estados brasileños de Amapá, Pará y Maranhão. Modelados por el caudal de los ríos Amazonas y Orinoco, sus humedales mareales están dominados por manglares tolerantes a la sal como Rhizophora racemosa y Avicennia schaueriana, junto con el mangle botón verde y los conocidos mangles rojo, blanco y negro. El clima es ecuatorial y plenamente húmedo, con calor durante todo el año, aproximadamente entre 22 y 31 grados Celsius, y precipitaciones abundantes que promedian unos 2.500 milímetros al año. Estos bosques permanentemente inundados refugian una rica avifauna y fauna, desde el ibis escarlata y el flamenco americano hasta nutrias gigantes, manatíes y tortugas marinas nidificantes, y la especie emblemática de la ecorregión es el colibrí ventrizafiro, en peligro crítico. Aunque gran parte permanece relativamente intacta, los manglares de aquí afrontan una presión creciente por la urbanización, la contaminación y la extracción de madera.

RESOLVE 611

Neotropic

15,921 sq mi

Mangroves

Tipo de paisaje

Mangroves

Región vegetal

Neotropic

Huella de la región

15,921 sq mi

Presión sobre el hábitat

Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 1)

Origen y cuidado

Patrocinado

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Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Bosques costeros de marea formados por árboles tolerantes a la sal, enraizados en estuarios y litorales resguardados de los trópicos y subtrópicos. Los manglares protegen las costas de las tormentas, almacenan grandes cantidades de carbono y sirven de criadero para peces y mariscos. Para las decisiones de jardín, acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.

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Regiones de plantación similares

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Raíces de manglar y agua de humedal costero en el Parque Nacional Lucayan, Bahamas.

RESOLVE 612 - Neotropic

Bahamian-Antillean mangroves

The Bahamian-Antillean mangroves form a Neotropical mangrove ecoregion scattered across the islands of the Caribbean and the western Atlantic, spanning jurisdictions that include Cuba, The Bahamas, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. Its tidal forests are built from four characteristic salt-tolerant trees: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). The climate is subtropical and strongly hurricane-exposed, with rainfall declining from the wetter northern islands toward the drier south. These shallow-water forests shelter notable wildlife, serving as habitat for West Indian manatees, marine turtles, and American flamingos, with the Northern Bahamian rock iguana recognized as the ecoregion's flagship species. Coastal tourism development and sea-level rise are leading threats, which matters to gardeners because buttonwood (Conocarpus) native here is among the region's hardiest salt- and wind-tolerant coastal plants.

RESOLVE 613 - Neotropic

Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves

The Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves form a chain of disconnected coastal wetlands along the eastern, Caribbean-facing coast of Central America, spanning Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, from Tampico on the Gulf of Mexico south to Panama. The habitat is dominated by red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), often with button mangrove and associated trees such as Pterocarpus officinalis and the leather fern Acrostichum aureum. The climate is tropical savanna (Köppen Aw) with a pronounced dry season and stable year-round temperatures, and the region is shaped heavily by periodic hurricanes and other extreme weather. These mangroves are recognized as areas of high biodiversity and endemism, sheltering wildlife including Baird's tapir and the flagship hawksbill sea turtle, and roughly 57% of their collective area is under some form of official protection through national parks and biosphere reserves. Among the native associated plants is Pachira aquatica, a freshwater-swamp tree familiar to gardeners well beyond its range.

RESOLVE 614 - Neotropic

Northern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

The Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast mangroves fringe the lagoons and estuaries of northwestern Mexico, spanning the southern Baja California peninsula (Baja California Sur) and the Gulf of California coasts of Sonora and northern Sinaloa, where they form the northernmost mangroves on the Pacific Coast of North America. The forests are built from the classic neotropical mangrove quartet: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus). Sitting in an arid, transitional zone between tropical and temperate seas, the climate is dry with only occasional summer and winter rain, and the nutrient-poor conditions keep many stands stunted, sometimes barely a meter tall. Despite their modest stature, these mangroves are vital nurseries for oysters, crabs, juvenile fish, and invertebrate larvae and shelter birds such as the San Blas jay and purplish-backed jay. The ecoregion is classed as critical or endangered, having lost large areas to coastal development, which makes its remaining tangled, salt-tolerant thickets a conservation priority.

RESOLVE 615 - Neotropic

South American Pacific mangroves

The South American Pacific mangroves fringe the Pacific coast of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, threading through estuaries and river mouths along the Neotropical shoreline. Their characteristic vegetation is a mix of black, white, red, and tea mangroves, with the regionally endemic Avicennia tonduzi and Avicennia bicolor occurring here; the southernmost stands in the Virrila and Piura estuaries are made up only of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans). The climate is broadly equatorial and humid but spans a dramatic moisture gradient, from very high rainfall in the wet north to near-desert conditions in the arid Piura region of the far south. These tidal forests are exceptionally rich habitat, sustaining flagship wildlife such as the crab-eating raccoon and the critically endangered mangrove finch, alongside clams such as Anadara tuberculosa that local communities harvest. Much of the ecoregion remains under pressure from coastal conversion, and roughly 40,000 hectares of Ecuadorian mangrove were cleared for shrimp ponds in the 1980s and early 1990s before losses stabilized.

RESOLVE 616 - Neotropic

Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves

The Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves form a chain of estuarine and brackish tidal forests scattered along the South Atlantic coast of Brazil, reaching from the southeastern shoreline near the Paraíba do Sul estuary south toward Santa Catarina and including the Bahia and Espírito Santo coasts. The canopy is built from the classic Atlantic mangrove trio: red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia), and white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), trees that root in shifting tidal sediments and reach roughly nine to twenty meters tall. The setting is tropical and humid, with rainfall and dry seasons that vary from one stretch of coast to the next. These forests serve as nurseries for fish, crabs, shrimp, and mollusks, host sea turtles and the West Indian manatee, and provide stopover habitat for migratory shorebirds, yet they are pressured by urban expansion, timber cutting, and industrial pollution. For coastal gardeners, the takeaway is ecological rather than ornamental: mangroves are specialized salt-tolerant wetland trees that anchor shorelines rather than border plants for cultivated beds.

RESOLVE 617 - Neotropic

Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves

The Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves trace the Pacific coast of Central America, spanning Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, with its northernmost reach along the Chiapas and Oaxaca coastal plain. These are tidal mangrove forests built from red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove, white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), and button and tea mangroves in shifting assemblages, alongside the water zapotón (Pachira aquatica), with trees reaching up to 25 meters tall. The climate is tropical but uneven across the region, ranging from wet sectors receiving roughly 2,500 to 3,000 mm of rain a year to drier coastal stretches around 1,400 to 1,600 mm with temperatures near 27 to 29 degrees Celsius. The ecoregion shelters notable wildlife including jaguars, tapirs, and crocodiles, and is home to two endemic, endangered birds, the mangrove hummingbird and the yellow-billed cotinga, with a large area protected in Costa Rica by Corcovado National Park. For gardeners, the native Pachira aquatica is widely grown elsewhere as the ornamental "money tree."

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Region packet

Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves educator packet

Los manglares del Amazonas-Orinoco-Caribe Sur forman una vasta ecorregión costera del Neotrópico, que bordea las costas caribeñas de Colombia y Venezuela y las costas atlánticas de Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, la Guayana Francesa y el noreste de Brasil, incluidos los estados brasileños de Amapá, Pará y Maranhão. Modelados por el caudal de los ríos Amazonas y Orinoco, sus humedales mareales están dominados por manglares tolerantes a la sal como Rhizophora racemosa y Avicennia schaueriana, junto con el mangle botón verde y los conocidos mangles rojo, blanco y negro. El clima es ecuatorial y plenamente húmedo, con calor durante todo el año, aproximadamente entre 22 y 31 grados Celsius, y precipitaciones abundantes que promedian unos 2.500 milímetros al año. Estos bosques permanentemente inundados refugian una rica avifauna y fauna, desde el ibis escarlata y el flamenco americano hasta nutrias gigantes, manatíes y tortugas marinas nidificantes, y la especie emblemática de la ecorregión es el colibrí ventrizafiro, en peligro crítico. Aunque gran parte permanece relativamente intacta, los manglares de aquí afrontan una presión creciente por la urbanización, la contaminación y la extracción de madera.

Realm

Neotropic

Dominant biome

Mangroves

Approximate area

15,921 square miles

States / provinces

Not recorded

Climate descriptor

Not recorded

Classroom prompts

- Which climate and biome facts explain why this region supports its characteristic plants?

- How do native-plant and wildlife-support claims differ from a species-presence claim?

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