Eritrean coastal desert
Bioma
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
·
Reino biogeográfico
Afrotropic

Eritrean coastal desert

Eritrean coastal desert
El desierto costero de Eritrea es una franja estrecha y árida que se extiende a lo largo de la costa meridional del mar Rojo, en Eritrea y Yibuti, una llanura llana de arena y grava situada por debajo de unos 200 metros y salpicada de afloramientos rocosos. La vegetación es una escasa estepa herbácea salpicada de dispersas acacias sombrilla (Acacia tortilis) y Acacia asak, junto con gramíneas resistentes a la sequía como Panicum turgidum, Cymbopogon schoenanthus y Lasiurus scindicus, con plantas halófitas y pequeños rodales de manglar en las ensenadas costeras resguardadas. El clima es extremadamente cálido y seco, con precipitaciones anuales que promedian menos de 100 milímetros y muy variables de un año a otro, y con temperaturas mínimas entre las más altas registradas en toda África. A pesar de lo hostil del entorno, la región todavía sostiene gacelas dorcas y de Soemmerring junto con el diminuto dik-dik de Salt, y el vecino estrecho de Bab el-Mandeb canaliza cada otoño una de las mayores migraciones intercontinentales de rapaces del mundo, cuando cientos de miles de aves de presa cruzan desde Arabia hacia África. Para los jardineros de climas cálidos y secos, las acacias sombrilla nativas y las gramíneas cespitosas del desierto que se encuentran aquí ilustran el tipo de plantación tolerante al calor y a la sequía que la región favorece de forma natural.
RESOLVE 93
Afrotropic
1,773 sq mi
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Tipo de paisaje
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Región vegetal
Afrotropic
Huella de la región
1,773 sq mi
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Could Recover (Dinerstein NNH 3)
Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Tierras áridas y semiáridas donde las lluvias escasas y erráticas y la alta evaporación limitan la vegetación a arbustos, suculentas y gramíneas dispersas adaptados a la sequía. Las oscilaciones de temperatura entre el día y la noche son grandes, y la vida está finamente ajustada a la escasez de agua. Para las decisiones de jardín, acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.

Plantas que pueden con esta región

Plotwright aún no tiene plantas con buen ajuste climático para esta región. A medida que el catálogo crezca en esta banda climática, aparecerán sugerencias aquí.

Regiones de plantación similares

Explora otras regiones del mismo bioma. Sus listas de plantas pueden sugerir especies y combinaciones que vale la pena comparar.
La laguna turquesa del atolón de Aldabra dentro de un anillo de arrecife oscurecido por el matorral, vista desde un avión de paso, Seychelles.
RESOLVE 91 - Afrotropic
Aldabra Island xeric scrub
The Aldabra Island xeric scrub covers the coral atoll of Aldabra in the Seychelles, an isolated landform in the western Indian Ocean lying roughly 400 km northwest of Madagascar. Its xeric vegetation falls into two main types: dense thickets of Pemphis acidula on the saline, low-lying ground, and a mixed scrub of low trees, shrubs, herbs, and grasses spread across most of the atoll. The climate is tropical, with an average annual temperature near 27 degrees Celsius and about 1,200 mm of rainfall, split into a wetter season from November to April and a drier stretch from May to October. The terrestrial flora includes roughly nine fern species and 178 flowering plants, of which about 38 percent are thought to be endemic. Aldabra is best known for hosting the world's largest population of giant tortoises and the flightless Aldabra white-throated rail, and the atoll has been protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 13b
+1.6°F para 2070
62 sq mi
Nivel NNH 1
Llanura árida de arena del desierto de Grand Bara, en el sur de Yibuti, con hierbas y matorral semidesérticos dispersos bajo un cielo abierto.
RESOLVE 92 - Afrotropic
Djibouti xeric shrublands
The Djibouti xeric shrublands form a semi-desert belt along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coasts of the Horn of Africa, spanning Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia (including Somaliland) and encompassing the Afar Triangle, a lowland that drops as much as 160 metres below sea level at fault depressions such as the Danakil and Lac Assal. Vegetation grades from coastal mangroves into open grass and shrub steppe, with thorny acacias such as Acacia (Vachellia) tortilis and Senegalia mellifera, the spiny Rhigozum somalense, and the desert date Balanites aegyptiaca characteristic of the sandy plains and basaltic lava fields. The climate is extremely hot and arid, with mean annual rainfall ranging from under 100 millimetres near the coast to around 200 millimetres further inland, and the tectonically active rift includes some of the hottest sites in Africa. The ecoregion is notable for harboring the last viable population of the African wild ass alongside the endemic Archer's lark and the dragon tree Dracaena ombet, which clings to higher arid hills. For gardeners in hot, dry climates, several drought-adapted natives here-the architectural Dracaena dragon trees and tough Acacia and Balanites genera-are familiar xeric ornamentals.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 10b-13b
+2.8°F para 2070
91,801 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
Amanecer sobre aguas quietas en la presa Gariep, con una torre de toma de hormigón y matorral karoo sin hojas, Sudáfrica.
RESOLVE 94 - Afrotropic
Gariep Karoo
The Gariep Karoo is an arid, open shrubland in the Afrotropic realm that stretches from the middle of South Africa's Northern Cape northward across the Orange River (also called the Gariep River, which forms the border between the Northern Cape and Namibia's ǁKaras Region) into southern Namibia. Its sparse, low-shrub vegetation is dominated by succulent dwarf shrubs and tall stem-succulents including quiver trees, with characteristic genera such as Drosanthemum, Eriocephalus, Galenia, Pentzia, Pteronia and Ruschia, alongside perennial grasses like Aristida and Stipagrostis. The climate is harsh, with mid-summer maximum temperatures exceeding 36 degrees Celsius, mid-winter minimums dropping below freezing, frequent droughts, and annual rainfall between 50 and 500 millimetres that decreases from east to west. The region holds the dramatic Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia and supports the ferruginous lark, its endemic flagship bird, yet it remains poorly protected against a 40 percent conservation target. For gardeners in dry climates, its drought-hardy natives such as quiver trees and succulent shrubs in the genera Ruschia and Drosanthemum are well suited to xeric, low-water plantings.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 9a-10b
+2.4°F para 2070
97,361 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
Capa de cúmulos sobre mantos de dunas rojas y la línea de rompientes de la costa meridional de Somalia, desde gran altitud.
RESOLVE 95 - Afrotropic
Hobyo grasslands and shrublands
The Hobyo grasslands and shrublands form a long, narrow coastal strip in Somalia, running along the Indian Ocean from south of Mogadishu northwards past the town of Hobyo, where a belt of wind-built dunes some 10 to 15 kilometers wide fringes the shore. The dunes carry distinctive grassland and low scrub: wind-tolerant grasses and sedges first colonize the bare sand, while denser thickets of Aerva javanica, Indigofera sparteola, and Jatropha pelargoniifolia hold the more stable ground. The climate is hot and dry, with rainfall concentrated in a short April-to-June season as the Intertropical Convergence Zone shifts north. Part of the Somali-Masai centre of plant endemism, the ecoregion shelters several species found nowhere else, including the silver dik-dik, the Somali golden mole, and the endemic Ash's lark and Obbia lark, yet it lies almost entirely outside any protected area. Gardeners working hot, sandy, low-water sites may recognize relatives of its native dune flora, such as the drought-hardy Aerva and Indigofera.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 13b
+1.9°F para 2070
5,192 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
Casuarinas y matas de hierba sobre arena blanca de duna costera, isla Europa, Tierras Australes Francesas.
RESOLVE 96 - Afrotropic
Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub
This Afrotropic desert and xeric shrubland ecoregion covers two small coralline islands, Europa and Bassas da India, a French overseas territory scattered in the Mozambique Channel about a third of the way from southern Madagascar toward southern Mozambique, with the two islands lying roughly 100 km apart. The low-lying landscape of Europa is clothed in dry forest of silver thicket (Euphorbia stenoclada), a grassy herbaceous formation of Sclerodactylon macrostachyum, coastal shrubland including bay cedar (Suriana maritima), and mangrove swamps of Rhizophora mucronata fringing a shallow lagoon open to the sea. The climate is semi-arid and tropical with wet summers and dry winters, dominated by southeast trade winds in the austral winter and the occasional cyclone. The islands are an internationally important refuge: Europa is one of the world's largest nesting grounds for green sea turtles and hosts a major great frigatebird colony along with endemic lizards and seabirds, and the area is protected as a Ramsar wetland. For gardeners, the native flora here is dominated by drought-tolerant succulent Euphorbia and salt-tolerant coastal genera adapted to heat and limited rainfall.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 13b
+1.6°F para 2070
8 sq mi
Nivel NNH 4
Paisaje árido de sabana del Kalahari de arena roja en Mabuasehube, con vegetación escasa y grandes nidos de tejedor republicano.
RESOLVE 97 - Afrotropic
Kalahari xeric savanna
The Kalahari xeric savanna spans the sandy plains of the Kalahari Basin across northwestern South Africa, southern Botswana, and central-southeastern Namibia. Despite its name, it is an open, dry savanna where bunchgrasses such as Schmidtia, Stipagrostis, Aristida, and Eragrostis grow among scattered trees, most characteristically the camelthorn (Vachellia erioloba) and grey camelthorn (Vachellia haematoxylon), alongside shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), blackthorn (Senegalia mellifera), and silver cluster-leaf (Terminalia sericea). The climate is harsh and continental, with patchy rainfall that rises from the dry southwest to the northeast and temperatures that can swing dramatically between cold nights and daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius. Although plant endemism is low, the ecoregion supports a striking diversity of large mammals for such an arid system, including its flagship gemsbok along with lion, cheetah, leopard, and brown hyena. For gardeners in hot, dry climates, several of its hardy native woody plants, such as the camelthorn acacias and the shrub Grewia flava, are drought-adapted and grown ornamentally.
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Zonas 9a-10b
+3.1°F para 2070
265,474 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2

Hasta dónde llega esta ecorregión

Los países, estados de EE. UU. y provincias de Canadá que toca esta ecorregión, a partir de un cruce espacial de su polígono RESOLVE con los límites de Natural Earth.

Educator packet

Region packet
Eritrean coastal desert educator packet
El desierto costero de Eritrea es una franja estrecha y árida que se extiende a lo largo de la costa meridional del mar Rojo, en Eritrea y Yibuti, una llanura llana de arena y grava situada por debajo de unos 200 metros y salpicada de afloramientos rocosos. La vegetación es una escasa estepa herbácea salpicada de dispersas acacias sombrilla (Acacia tortilis) y Acacia asak, junto con gramíneas resistentes a la sequía como Panicum turgidum, Cymbopogon schoenanthus y Lasiurus scindicus, con plantas halófitas y pequeños rodales de manglar en las ensenadas costeras resguardadas. El clima es extremadamente cálido y seco, con precipitaciones anuales que promedian menos de 100 milímetros y muy variables de un año a otro, y con temperaturas mínimas entre las más altas registradas en toda África. A pesar de lo hostil del entorno, la región todavía sostiene gacelas dorcas y de Soemmerring junto con el diminuto dik-dik de Salt, y el vecino estrecho de Bab el-Mandeb canaliza cada otoño una de las mayores migraciones intercontinentales de rapaces del mundo, cuando cientos de miles de aves de presa cruzan desde Arabia hacia África. Para los jardineros de climas cálidos y secos, las acacias sombrilla nativas y las gramíneas cespitosas del desierto que se encuentran aquí ilustran el tipo de plantación tolerante al calor y a la sequía que la región favorece de forma natural.
Realm
Afrotropic
Dominant biome
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
Approximate area
1,773 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?
- Which source-backed facts would you cite before using this region in a classroom map activity?
Use the Sources & citations section below for page citation styles and region source links.

Fuentes y citas

Citar esta página
Para planes de clase, artículos o notas de plantación regionales que usen esta página de Plotwright. Para citar el marco de ecorregiones subyacente o un perfil editorial específico, usa las tarjetas de fuentes de abajo.
Plotwright. (n.d.). Eritrean coastal desert (Eritrean coastal desert). Retrieved 2026, August 20, from https://plotwright.com/regions/resolve-93
Fuentes para esta región
Esta página cita primero a Plotwright por la vista compilada y luego enumera las páginas de fuentes del marco, el clima y la edición originales para que los lectores puedan citar el material original directamente.
RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Marco principal de ecorregiones
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation