Equatorial Forest In World Map

The largest extensions of the equatorial forest are found in the lowlands of the amazon, part of central america, the congo basin and the african coast of the gulf of guinea and the islands of southeast asia of indonesia. Explore our rainforests map with national geographic. It was aggregated from 25m resolution to 1km by summing up the forest area for each 1x1km pixel (figure 1).

They grow in areas of high rainfall in west, central and east africa. Africa’s rainforests are under continual threat. Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface.

The pacific equatorial forest (also known as the pacific forest of ecuador) is a tropical forest ecosystem located along ecuador's coastal mountain range at 0° latitude, primarily concentrated in northwestern manabí.the ecosystem is most notable for its high diversity of forest types in unusually close proximity.

They grow in areas of high rainfall in west, central and east africa. Tropical rainforests grow in the equatorial regions. The average temperature of the equatorial countries is around 30 °c during the day. In some places, however, cold currents trigger tropical monsoon climates accompanied by a dry season.