Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

Tumbes - Chocó - Magdalena is a biodiversity hotspot, which encompasses tropical rain forests and tropical dry forests on the Pacific coast of South America and the Galapagos Islands. The region stretches from the eastern tip of Panama to the lower valley of the Magdalena River in Colombia and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to the north-western part of Peru. The region is bounded on the east by the Andes. The Tumbes - Chocó - Magdalena Hotspot is 1500 km long and has an area of ​​274,597 km ².

Tumbes - Chocó - Magdalena, is threatened by colonization, hunting, and in particular large birds and mammals, and deforestation, in particular the coastal mangrove forests. So Ecuadorian coastal forests have fallen to only 2 percent of its original area.