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The dry forests are found mostly on the southern and western portions of the island of Hispaniola, covering portions of both the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The ecoregion covers the southern and western coastal lowlands, the Cul-de-Sac–Enriquillo lowland, and the Cibao Valley in the north-central portion of the island. [1]
It lies at elevations greater than 800 m (2,600 ft) in the mountains of Hispaniola, extending from the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic and into the Massif du Nord of Haiti. It is surrounded at lower elevations by the Hispaniolan moist forests and Hispaniolan dry forests ecoregions, which cover the remainder of the island. Annual ...
Tropical storm Jeanne skimmed the north coast of Haiti, leaving 3,006 people dead in flooding and mudslides, mostly in the city of Gonaïves. [3] Earlier that year in May, floods killed over 3,000 people on Haiti's southern border with the Dominican Republic. [4] Haiti was again pummeled by tropical storms in late August and early September 2008.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Hispaniola. The avifauna of Hispaniola included a total of 327 species, according to Bird Checklists of the World as of November 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Of them, 14 have been introduced by humans and 111 are rare or accidental .
The southern range begins in the southwesternmost Dominican Republic as the Sierra de Bahoruco, and extends west into Haiti as the Massif de la Selle and the Massif de la Hotte, which form the mountainous spine of Haiti's southern peninsula. Pic de la Selle is the highest peak in the southern range, the third highest peak in the Antilles and ...
The Lepidoptera of Hispaniola consist of both the butterflies and moths recorded from the island of Hispaniola, comprising the two sovereign nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. According to a recent estimate, there are about of 1,180 Lepidoptera species present on the island.
Moist forests occur on most of the eastern half the Dominican Republic, stretching from the coast all the way to high elevations in the mountains.In Haiti, they are found in the Tiburon Peninsula in the southern part of the country as well as the Massif du Nord.
SOH logo, bearing the silhouette of the palmchat, national bird of the Dominican Republic.. The Hispaniolan Ornithological Society (Spanish: Sociedad Ornitológica de la Hispaniola), is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to nature conservation, particularly of birds and their habitats, on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).