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Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Caribbean, lying south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.The Jamaican moist forests ecoregion covers an area of 8,192 km 2, and covers 85% of the island of Jamaica.
Purus–Madeira moist forests (Brazil) Rio Negro campinarana (Brazil, Colombia) Solimões–Japurá moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Peru) Southwest Amazon moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru) Tapajós–Xingu moist forests (Brazil) Tocantins–Araguaia–Maranhão moist forests (Brazil) Uatuma–Trombetas moist forests (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname)
The largest area extends along the south coast of the island, from Morant Point, Jamaica's easternmost point, to Black River Bay in the west. Kingston, Jamaica's capital and largest city, is in the ecoregion. Smaller areas of dry forest occur around Negril at the western end of the island, and east of Montego Bay along the island's northern shore.
It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
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The region supports one of the largest remaining areas of dry limestone forest in the Caribbean. [2] A 1970 survey of the forest noted 271 species of plants in the forest of which 53 are only found in Jamaica. [3] The forest is home to threatened Jamaican endemic animals, including the Jamaican iguana and the blue-tailed galliwasp.
Jamaica [a] is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean . [ 9 ]
Tropical seasonal forests, also known as moist deciduous, monsoon or semi-evergreen (mixed) seasonal forests, have a monsoon or wet savannah climates (as in the Köppen climate classification): receiving high overall rainfall with a warm summer wet season and (often) a cooler winter dry season. Some trees in these forests drop some or all of ...