FAO Forestry country profiles - natural woody vegetation

Broadleaved forests

Closed pure or almost pure forests

Four concentrations of mangroves are found along the Pacific coast. These are as follows from north to south: Ancon Bay (on the border with Colombia), Cojimies Bay, Caraquez Bay, and the group around the Gulf of Guayaquil (as far as Peru) and Puno Islandthe largest and most intact stand. Some mangroves are also found in the Galapagos Islands. Patches of Mora sp. are found behind the mangroves in the north-west, as they are in Colombia. In fresh water there are forests of Dialyanthera sp. (Acosta-Solfa, 1961; Perfumo, 1974) with Campnosperma panamensis, Symphonia globulifera, Pterocarpus officinalis, etc.