Geography
The montane forests consist of eleven enclaves, lying between 600–2,675 metres (2,000–8,776 ft) in elevation, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range of the northeastern Andes Mountains. The moist forests cover an area of 14,300 square kilometers (5,500 sq mi).
The Venezuelan Coastal Range, which is actually two parallel ranges, runs east and west across northern Venezuela, separating the Orinoco River basin to the south from the Caribbean Sea to the north. The range consists of western and eastern sections. The Coastal Range is a northeastern extension of the Andes Mountains, separated from the Cordillera de Mérida to the southwest by the Yaracuy Depression. These forest enclaves are surrounded at lower elevations by the dry La Costa xeric shrublands, and are separated from both the moist forests of the Andes and of Amazonia by dry shrublands and the vast Llanos grasslands of the Orinoco basin.
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