Amazon natural region

Amazon Natural Region
Ecology
Realm	Neotropic
Biome	Rainforest, Wetlands
Geography
Country	Colombia
Rivers	Caquetá, Putumayo, Amazon
Climate type	Tropical

Amazonía region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km², 35% of Colombia's total territory. The region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest, or jungle, which is a part of the massive Amazon rainforest.

The Amazon Region of Colombia is part of the Amazon rainforest.

Biogeographical subregions

The region is bounded by the East Andes along the western edge and extends to the Venezuelan and Brazilian borders in the east. The northern limit begins with the Guaviare and Vichada Rivers and extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers.

The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions:

Amazon foothills: bordering the East Andes
Caquetá River Plain: the main watershed of this region
Inírida River Plain: location of the famous Cerros de Mavecure
Guaviare River Plain: shared with the Eastern Plains
Putumayo River Plain: along the southern border
Serranía de Chiribiquete
Amazon Trapezium: the area of land that actually borders with the Amazon River

Other important rivers include the Vaupés, Apaporis and Yarí.

Biodiversity

The tropical rainforest classified more specifically as a tropical moist broadleaf forest. Within the Colombian Amazon region there are five moist forest ecoregions:

Caquetá moist forests: the largest part of the Colombian Amazon region centered on the Caquetá, Vaupés, Yarí, and Apaporis Rivers
Napo moist forests: the southwest corner of the Colombian Amazon region which borders the Andes and includes the headwaters of the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers
Solimões-Japurá moist forests: in Colombia this ecoregion is centered on the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers
Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests: this ecoregion barely extends into Colombia mainly around the Lower Vaupés and Negro Rivers
Campinarana: this ecoregion of white sandy forest and swamps barely extends into Colombia around the Negro River in the Department of Vaupés

Protected areas

PNN Alto Fragua Indi-Wasi
PNN Amacayacu
PNN Cahuinarí
PNN Serranía de Chiribiquete
RNN Nukak
PNN La Paya
RNN Puinawai
PNN ío Puré
PNN Serranía de los Churumbelos Auka-Wasi
PNN Tinigua
PNN Yaigojé Apaporis

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External links

Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website

References

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