Cordillera Oriental

This ecoregion is bound by the western slopes of the Cordillera Central and the eastern facing slopes of the Cordillera Oriental, and are flanked by páramo habitats on either side.

Magdalena Valley montane forests 2008

In central Ecuador 160 kilometers (km) south of Quito on the eastern side of the Cordillera Oriental range of the Andes.

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

This isolated mountain range is separated from the Cordillera Oriental of the northern Andean chain by a swath of xeric habitat, and its species assemblages and characteristics reflect this isolation with many endemic species.

Santa Marta montane forests 2008

The High Andes zone is in the intermediate and upper Cordillera Oriental, an area of rugged topography with deep steep-sided valleys, abundant cliffs and many rocky jagged peaks.

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

The Cordillera Oriental is in turn divided into two Cordilleras, the Real and the Central.

Central Andean wet puna 2007

The Andes divides into two mountain systems - Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental - close to the border of Peru and Bolivia.

Central Andean wet puna 2007

These forests flank the lower slopes and lowlands between the Cordillera de Mérida and the Cordillera Oriental of the northern Andes, and occur as several outliers in the vicinity of Lake Maracaibo.

Catatumbo moist forests 2007

In the broadest sense, this ecoregion encompasses the forests between the lowland forests of the eastern slopes (1,000 m) and the continental divide (excluding páramo) of the Cordillera Oriental, from where it splits from the main Andean chain in southern Colombia, to where it terminates along the Venezuelan-Colombian border NW of Laker Maracaibo.

Cordillera Oriental montane forests 2007

The largest, or "core" block, spans the premontane and inter-Andean valley region in a "V" shape between the divergence of the Cordillera de Merida (to the east) and the northern extension of the Andes (Cordillera Oriental).

Catatumbo moist forests 2007

However, most of the 158,125-hectare Park is located in the Cordillera Oriental montane forests, and little of the moist forests are protected.

Catatumbo moist forests 2007