Panama Bight

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The Panama Bight is a marine ecoregion on the Pacific coast of the Americas.

The Panama Bight extends eastwards from the Azuero Peninsula in Panama along the coast of the Gulf of Panama and Archipelago de las Perlas. It continues south along the entire Pacific coast of Colombia to the coast of northern Ecuador. The Nicoya marine ecoregion bounds it on the north, and the Guayaquil marine ecoregion bounds it on the south.

The Panama Bight ecoregion is home to rich coral beds in the near shore waters, and enclaves of Panama Bight mangroves can be found in the tidal zone.

The Panama Bight ecoregion is one of the World Wildlife Fund's Global 200 priority ecoregions for conservation.

[edit] External links

• Panama Bight (WWF)
• Panama Bight (National Geographic)
• Panama Bight map (National Geographic)

[edit] References

• Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas". Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573-583. [1]