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ECUADOR STATISTICS
Land area: 276,840 km2 Area of forest: 144,857.0 km2 % Land area forested: 52.3
Forest Type Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: Total Forest (km2) Total Protected (km2) % Protected
Ia Ib II III IV V VI
Tropical
14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rain forest 5717.6   14655.6   12.2   3835.9 117905.3 24221.3 20.5
15 Lower montane forest               3.3 0.0 0.0
16 Upper montane forest             0.0 63.3 0.0 0.0
17 Freshwater swamp forest     330.9       2752.1 3925.0 3083.0 78.5
18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest 65.8   173.7         8786.3 239.4 2.7
20 Needleleaf forest     80.0         85.5 80.0 93.5
21 Mangrove 319.9           0.4 1981.5 320.3 16.2
22 Disturbed natural forest     0.4       0.7 108.0 1.0 1.0
23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest               1741.5 0.0 0.0
25 Thorn forest     94.9         2700.5 94.9 3.5
26 Sparse trees and parkland 735.3   1758.5         7557.0 2493.7 33.0
Total 6838.5 0.0 17093.8 0.0 12.2 0.0 6589.1 144857.0 30533.7 21.1