Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)
Choco Andino de Pichincha
Chocó Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve is located in northern Ecuador in the Pichincha province northwest of the capital city of Quito The altitude of the area ranges from 360m to 4480m asl Its biodiversity and endemism along with that of the Amazon and Galapagos have made Ecuador worthy of the status of biodiversity hotspot The Chocó Andino region extends over two critical ecoregions the humid forest lowlands of the Chocó Darien which extend from Panama to the Ecuadorian West and the Northern Andean Mountain Forests Approximately 880000 people live in the proposed biosphere reserve
Ecuador