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Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve

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Area
  
1,551 km²

Established
  
1998

Nearest city
  
Catemaco

Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve

Location
  
Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

The Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve or Biósfera Los Tuxtlas, is a biosphere reserve located in the coastal and higher elevations of the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, in Los Tuxtlas of Veracruz state, in Eastern Mexico.

Ecoregion

The area is notable for its diversity of plants and animals. It contains the neotropical Sierra de los Tuxtlas tropical rainforest ecoregion, of the Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Biome.

Other Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the region include:

  • Veracruz moist forests — ecoregion
  • Petén-Veracruz moist forests — ecoregion
  • References

    Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve Wikipedia