Chimalapas montane forests

Chimalapas montane forests
Chimalapas montane forests
	Mountains of Chimalapas above Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Oaxaca
	Location of the Chimalapas montane forests ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders	List Central American pine–oak forests; Chiapas Depression dry forests; Petén–Veracruz moist forests; Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests; Southern Pacific dry forests;
Geography
Area	2,077 km2 (802 sq mi)
Country	Mexico
States	Chiapas; Oaxaca;
Conservation
Conservation status	Relatively stable/intact
Protected	278 km2 (13%)

The Chimalapas montane forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico. It includes the montane tropical forests of the Chimalapas region on the boundary of Chiapas and Oaxaca.

^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.