Under UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are currently 104 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves

World Network of Biosphere Reserves

The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers internationally-designated protected areas, known as biosphere reserves, that are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between man and nature The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers internationally-designated protected...

 in Latin America and the Caribbean. These are distributed across 19 countries in the region.

The list

Below is the list of biosphere reserves in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by country/territory, along with the year these were designated as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

• San Guillermo (1980)
• Laguna Blanca
  Laguna Blanca National Park
  Laguna Blanca is a National Park in the west of the , close to the town of Zapala.The park around the lagoon was created in 1940 to protect the lagoon and particularly the population of black-necked swans . It has an area of 112.5 km²...
  
   (1982)
• Costero del Sur (1984)
• Ñacuñán
  Biosphere Reserve of Ñacuñan
  The Biosphere Reserve of Ñacuñan is located in the Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is a composed of three main geomorphological areas.-Notes:...
  
   (1986)
• Pozuelos (1990)
• Yabotí (1995)
• Mar Chiquita
  Mar Chiquita
  Mar Chiquita is a lagoon in the southeast province of Buenos Aires in eastern Argentina. It is located by the Atlantic coast, 30 km north of Mar del Plata.The area is a natural reserve where a number of species of animals live around the lagoon....
  
   (1996)
• Delta del Paraná
  Paraná Delta
  The Paraná Delta is the delta of the Paraná River in Argentina. The Paraná flows north–south and becomes an alluvial basin between the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Santa Fe, then emptying into the Río de la Plata....
  
   (2000)
• Riacho Teuquito (2000)
• Laguna Oca del Río Paraguay (2001)
• Las Yungas (2002)
• Andino Norpatagonica (2007)
  • Lanín National Park
    Lanín National Park
    Lanín National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Neuquén Province, with forests of diverse tree varieties, mainly Fagaceae and conifers such as the lenga and the Araucaria, many species of which are not found elsewhere in Argentina....
    
    
  • Nahuel Huapi National Park
    Nahuel Huapi National Park
    Established in 1934, the Nahuel Huapi National Park is the oldest national park in Argentina. It surrounds Nahuel Huapi Lake in the foothills of the Patagonian Andes. The largest of the national parks in the region, it has an area of , or nearly 2 million acres...
    
    
  • Los Arrayanes National Park
    Los Arrayanes National Park
    Los Arrayanes National Park is a national park of Argentina with an area of 17.53 square kilometres. It covers the Quetrihué Peninsula on the shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake in the province of Neuquén, 3 km from Villa la Angostura....
    
    
  • Lago Puelo National Park
    Lago Puelo National Park
    The Lago Puelo National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the northwest of the province of Chubut, in the Patagonia. It has an area of 276.74 km²...
    
    
  • Los Alerces National Park
    Los Alerces National Park
    The Los Alerces National Park is a national park in Chubut Province, Argentina, some 30 miles from Esquel. It is a park of 2,630 square kilometres along the border with Chile, best known for the alerce trees from which the park takes its name.The park was created in 1937 in order to protect the...
    
    
• Pereyra Iraola (2007)

Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

• Pilon-Lajas
  Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve and Communal Lands
  Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve and Communal Lands is a protected area in Bolivia located in the departments of La Paz and Beni , in their northern and western parts, respectively, about 350 km northeast of La Paz and 50 km west of...
  
   (1977)
• Ulla Ulla
  Ulla Ulla National Reserve
  The Ulla Ulla National Reserve - which today is part of Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area - was created in 1972 with an extension of 240,000 ha, a biosphere reserve located in the Franz Tamayo Province, in the Department of La Paz in western Bolivia.The Reserve is on the high Andean...
  
   (1977)
• Beni
  Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve
  Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve ) is a protected area in Bolivia located in the Beni Department, in the José Ballivián Province and Yacuma Province.- External links :* *...
  
   (1986)

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

• Mata Atlântica (including São Paulo Green Belt
  São Paulo City Green Belt Biosphere Reserve
  The São Paulo City Green Belt Biosphere Reserve - GBBR, an integral part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, was created in 1994 stemming from a people's movement that collected 150 thousand signatures. It extends throughout 73 municipalities including São Paulo metro and the Santos area...
  
  ) (1993)
• Cerrado
  Cerrado
  The Cerrado, is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Gioas and Minas Gerais...
  
   (1993)
• Pantanal
  Pantanal
  The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and one of the world's largest wetland of any kind. Most of it lies within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay, sprawling over an area estimated at between and...
  
   (2000)
• Caatinga
  Caatinga
  Caatinga is a type of vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation"...
  
   (2001)
• Central Amazon
  Amazon Rainforest
  The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
  
   (2001)
• Espinhaço Range
  Espinhaço Mountains
  The Espinhaço Mountains is a mountain range in Brazil. The range runs roughly north and south through the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, and forms the divide between the upper watershed of the São Francisco River and those of the shorter rivers which flow east into the Atlantic, including the...
  
   (2005)

Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

• Fray Jorge
  Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
  Bosque de Fray Jorge national park or Bosque Fray Jorge national park lies in the Limarí Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile. It is a UNESCO Biosphere reserve.- Geography :...
  
   (1977)
• Juan Férnandez
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park
  Archipiélago de Juan Fernández National Park is a national park located 667 kilometres west of Chile's mainland port of San Antonio, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. The park covers 96 square kilometres and comprises the islands: Santa Clara, Alejandro Selkirk and the most part of the Robinson...
  
   (1977)
• Torres del Paine
  Torres del Paine National Park
  Torres del Paine National Park is a national park encompassing mountains, a glacier, a lake, and river-rich areas in southern Chilean Patagonia. The Cordillera del Paine is the centerpiece of the park. It lies in a transition area between the Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Steppes...
  
   (1978)
• Laguna San Rafael
  Laguna San Rafael National Park
  Laguna San Rafael National Park is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field...
  
   (1979)
• Lauca
  Lauca
  Lauca is a Biosphere Reserve, located in northern Chile, in Arica and Parinacota Region. The reserve comprises three protected areas: Lauca National Park, Las Vicuñas National Reserve and Salar de Surire Natural Monument. This zone was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981.-References and...
  
   (1981)
• Araucarias
  Araucarias Biosphere Reserve
  Araucarias Biosphere Reserve is located in the Andes range, in south-central Chile. It comprises the Conguillío National Park and the Alto Bío-Bío National Reserve. The main feature of this Biosphere Reserve is the massive presence of Araucarias ....
  
   (1983)
• La Campana-Peñuelas
  La Campana-Peñuelas
  This Biosphere Reserve includes La Campana National Park and the Lago Peñuelas National Reserve. It is located in west-central Chile. Forests within the La Campana-Peñuelas are habitat for the Chilean Wine Palm, Jubaea chilensis, an endangered palm, which had a much broader distribution prior to...
  
   (1984)
• Cabo de Hornos
  Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve
  The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve is located in the extreme south of Chile and comprises marine areas, islands, fjords, channels, forests and moorland. It covers an area of approximately 49,000 km²...
  
   (2005)
• Bosques Templados Lluviosos de los Andes Australes (2007)

Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

• Cinturón Andino (1979)
  • Cueva de los Guácharos
    Cueva de los Guácharos
    The Cueva de los Guácharos National Park , created in 1960, is the oldest of the 51 protected areas of Colombia. The park is located in the western face of the Colombian Eastern Andean Range in the departments of Huila and Caquetá...
    
    
  • Puracé
    Puracé
    Puracé is a stratovolcano located in the Puracé National Natural Park in the Cauca Department, Colombia. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Colombia. Large explosive eruptions occurred in 1849, 1869, and 1885, and the latest eruption was in 1977....
    
    
  • Nevado del Huila
    Nevado del Huila
    Nevado del Huila , at , is the highest volcano in Colombia, located in Huila Department. After being dormant for more than 500 years, the volcano showed heavy signs of activity in 2007 and 2008. As of February 20, 2007, there were more than 7000 "minor" seismic events, and a high state of...
    
    
• El Tuparro (1979)
• Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range apart from the Andes chain that runs through Colombia. Reaching an altitude of 5,700 metres above sea level just 42 km from the Caribbean coast, the Sierra Nevada is the world's highest coastal range...
  
   (1979)
• Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
  Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta
  The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta is the largest of the swampy marshes located between the Magdalena River and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, weakly separated from the Caribbean Sea by a narrow strait....
  
   (2000)
• Seaflower (2000)

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

• La Amistad
  La Amistad
  La Amistad was a ship notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba. It was a 19th-century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba...
  
   (1982)
• Cordillera Volcánica Central
  Central Volcanic Conservation Area
  Central Volcanic Conservation Area is an administrative area which is managed by SINAC for the purposes of conservation in the central part of Costa Rica, notably the volcanic areas of the Cordillera Central...
  
   (1988)
• Aqua y Paz
  Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge
  Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica twenty kilometers south of Los Chiles near the border with Nicaragua in the Alajuela province...
  
   (2007)

Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

• Sierra del Rosario
  Sierra del Rosario
  Sierra del Rosario is mountain range in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. It is located in the western part of the Guaniguanico Range, in the north-central part of the province, between the municipalities of La Palma, Los Palacios and Consolación del Sur....
  
   (1984)
• Cuchillas del Toa
  Cuchillas del Toa
  Cuchillas del Toa is a Biosphere Reserve in Cuba. It is located in the eastern part of the country, mostly in the Guantánamo Province and reaching to the north into the Holguín Province. Most of the reserve is established in the drainage area of the Toa River, which flows for to the Atlantic...
  
   (1987)
• Península de Guanahacabibes
  Guanahacabibes Peninsula
  Guanahacabibes Peninsula is the westernmost point on the island of Cuba. It is located in Pinar del Río Province, in the municipality of Sandino and is sparsely populated. The waters surrounding the peninsula are important spiny lobster and red snapper fishing grounds. It also boasts the category...
  
   (1987)
• Baconao
  Baconao
  Baconao Park is a large park region, located about 20 kilometers away from the city of Santiago de Cuba, with a total surface of .-History:The name Baconao is related to the name of a little native that lived in the south of Cuba during the pre-Columbian period...
  
   (1987)
• Ciénaga de Zapata
  Zapata Swamp
  Zapata Swamp is located on the Zapata Peninsula in the southern Matanzas province of Cuba. It is located less than southeast of Havana.-Species and preservation:...
  
   (2000)
• Buenavista
  Bay of Buena Vista
  The Bay of Buena Vista is a bay on Cuba's northern Atlantic shore. It is located in the northern part of the provinces of Sancti Spíritus, Villa Clara and Ciego de Ávila, between mainland Cuba and the archipelago that lines its northern coast....
  
   (2000)

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

• Jaragua
  Jaragua National Park
  Jaragua National Park is a national park of the Dominican Republic. Jaragua National Park is located in Pedenales Province in the extreme southwest of the Dominican Republic...
  
  -Bahoruco
  Baoruco Mountain Range
  Baoruco Mountain Range is situated in the Baoruco Province in the far southwestern corner of the Dominican Republic...
  
  -Enriquillo
  Lake Enriquillo
  Lake Enriquillo is a lake in the Dominican Republic and is the largest lake and lowest point in the Caribbean and the lowest point on any ocean island. It is one of only a few saltwater lakes in the world inhabited by crocodiles...
  
   (2002)

Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

• Archipiélago de Colón (Galápagos)
  Galápagos Islands
  The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...
  
   (1984)
• Yasuni
  Yasuni National Park
  Yasuni National Park is in Ecuador with an area of 9,820 km2 between the Napo and Curaray rivers in Napo and Pastaza provinces in Amazonian Ecuador. The park is about 250 km from Quito and was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989...
  
   (1989)
• Sumaco
  Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park
  Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Napo Province, Orellana Province and Sucumbíos Province.- External links :* * *...
  
   (2000)
• Podocarpus-El Condor
  Podocarpus National Park
  Podocarpus National Park is a national park located in the provinces of Zamora Chinchipe and Loja, in the south-east of Ecuador. It was created in 1982....
  
   (2007)

El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

• Apaneca-Llamatepec (2007)
  • Coatepeque Caldera
    Coatepeque Caldera
    Coatepeque Caldera also known as Lago De Coatepeque is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. The caldera was formed during a series of major rhyolitic explosive eruptions between about 72,000 and 57,000 years ago...
    
    
  • Izalco
    Izalco (volcano)
    Izalco is a stratovolcano on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 to 1958 earning it the nickname of "Lighthouse of the Pacific", and experienced a...
    
    
• Xiriualtique Jiquitizco (2007)

Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

• Mapimí (1977)
• La Michilía (1977)
• Montes Azules (1979)
• El Cielo (1986)
• Sian Ka'an
  Sian Ka'an
  Sian Ka'an is a non profit and non governmental organization biosphere reserve formed by a group of conservationists in the municipality of Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, whose mission is the conservation of the biodiversity...
  
   (1986)
• Sierra de Manantlán
  Sierra Madre del Sur
  The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Istmo de Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca.-Geography:...
  
   (1988)
• Calakmul
  Calakmul Biosphere Reserve
  The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve is located at the base of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, in Calakmul Municipality in the state of Campeche, bordering the Guatemalan department of El Petén to the south. It occupies 7,231.85 km² and includes about 12% of the subperennial jungles of Mexico. Its...
  
   (1993)
• El Triunfo
  Sierra Madre de Chiapas
  Sierra Madre is a mountain range which runs northwest-southeast from the state of Chiapas in Mexico across Guatemala and into El Salvador and Honduras. Most of the volcanoes of Guatemala are a part of this range.A narrow coastal plain lies south the range, between the Sierra Madre and the Pacific...
  
   (1993)
• El Vizcaíno
  El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve
  The El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, created in 1988, is located in Mulegé Municipality in northern Baja California Sur, at the center of the Baja California Peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez...
  
   (1993)
• Alto Golfo de California (1993)
• Islas del Golfo de California (1995)
• Sierra Gorda
  Sierra Gorda
  The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the state of Querétaro and extending into the neighboring states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí...
  
   (2001)
• Banco Chinchorro
  Banco Chinchorro
  Banco Chinchorro is an atoll reef lying off the southeast coast of the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco in Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Belize that is one of the world's premiere shipwreck diving spots...
  
   (2003)
• Sierra La Laguna
  Sierra de la Laguna
  The Sierra de la Laguna is a mountain range on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. It lies at the southern end of the peninsula in the state of Baja California Sur, and is the southernmost range of the Peninsular Ranges....
  
   (2003)
• Ría Celestún
  Celestún
  Celestún is a town in Yucatán, Mexico. It is located in the northwest corner of the state, just north of the border with the state of Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico coast at....
  
   (2004)
• Ría Lagartos (2004)
• Cumbres de Monterrey
  Cumbres de Monterrey National Park
  The Cumbres de Monterrey is national park of Mexico located in the northern portion of the Sierra Madre Oriental near the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. The park includes the famous symbol of Monterrey, the signature skyline known as Cerro de la Silla...
  
   (2006)
• Huatulco
  Huatulco
  Huatulco , centered on the town of La Crucecita, is a tourist development in Mexico. It is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca. Huatulco's tourism industry is centered on its nine bays thus the name Bahias de Huatulco but has since been unofficially shortened to simply Huatulco...
  
   (2006)
• La Encrucijada (2006)
• La Primavera (2006)
• La Sepultura (2006)
• Laguna Madre
  Laguna Madre
  The Laguna Madre extends well into Mexico, to the mouth of the Río Soto la Marina in the state of Tamaulipas. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico on the east by a number of barrier islands, including Barra Los Americanos, Barra Jesús María, and Barra Soto la Marina, and is bounded on the west...
  
   and Río Bravo Delta (2006)
• Los Tuxtlas
  Los Tuxtlas
  The Los Tuxtlas region, very broadly, occupies parts of south central Veracruz, in east central Mexico. The region includes the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and stretches from Laguna Alvarado, along the Gulf of Mexico, to Laguna del Ostión, then along the westernmost tributaries of Laguna del Ostión, to...
  
   (2006)
• Maderas del Carmen
  Maderas del Carmen
  Maderas del Carmen is a biosphere reserve in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.Maderas del Carmen encompasses the Sierra del Carmen, a segment of the Sierra Madre Oriental range...
  
   (2006)
• Mariposa Monarca (2006)
• Pantanos de Centla
  Pantanos de Centla
  The Pantanos de Centla is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southern Mexico, which includes seasonally flooded forests and wetlands.-Setting:The ecoregion covers an area of in the states of Tabasco and Campeche...
  
   (2006)
• Selva El Ocote
  Selva Zoque
  The Selva Zoque , which includes the Chimalapas rain forest, is an area of great ecological importance in Mexico. Most of the forest lies in the state of Oaxaca but parts are in Chiapas and Veracruz....
  
   (2006)
• Sierra de Huautla (2006)
• Volcan Tacana
  Volcán Tacaná
  The Tacaná Volcano is the second highest peak in Central America at . It is located in the Tacaná municipality of the Guatemalan department of San Marcos, and in Cacahoatán Municipality and Unión Juárez Municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas....
  
   (2006)
• Arrecife Alacranes (2006)
• Barranca de Metztilan (2006)
• Chamela-Cuixmala
  Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve
  The Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve is a nature reserve on the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The park was founded in 1993 and covers 131.42 square kilometres in La Huerta Municipality...
  
   (2006)
• Cuatrocienagas
  Cuatro Ciénegas
  Cuatro Ciénegas is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at , at an average elevation of 740 metres above sea level. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name....
  
   (2006)
• Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano
  Isla de Sacrificios
  Isla de Sacrificios is an island in Gulf of Mexico waters, situated off the Gulf coastline near the port of Veracruz, in Mexico. The waters surrounding the island are part of the Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano National Marine Park...
  
   (2006)
• Sierra de Alamos - Río Cuchujaqui (2007)
• Islas Marietas
  Islas Marías
  The Islas Marías are an archipelago of four islands that belong to Mexico. They are located in the Pacific Ocean, some off the coast of the state of Nayarit. They are part of the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit...
  
   (2008)
• Lagunas de Montebello (2009)
• Naha-Metzabok (2010)
• Los Volcanes (2010)
• Maria’s Island (2010)

Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

• Bosawas (1997)
• Río San Juan
  Río San Juan
  Río San Juan may refer to* Río San Juan , Nicaragua* Río San Juan, Dominican Republic* Río San Juan, north-eastern Venezuela* Río San Juan , Mexico...
  
   (2003)
• Ometepe Island
  Ometepe
  Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising from Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome and tepetl , meaning two mountains...
  
   (2010)

Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

• Huascarán
  Huascarán National Park
  Huascarán National Park is a national park in the Cordillera Blanca, a range of the Andes, in Ancash of central Peru. It was also pronounced as Natural Heritage of Humanity and recognized as Reserve of Biosphere Core. The highest mountain in Peru is located in the park...
  
   (1977)
• Manu
  Manú National Park
  Manú National Park is a biosphere reserve located in Madre de Dios and Paucartambo, Cusco. Before becoming an area protected by the Peruvian government, the Manú National Park was conserved thanks to its inaccessibility. The park remains fairly inaccessible by road to this day. In 1977, UNESCO...
  
   (1977)
• Noroeste (1977)
  • Cerros de Amotape National Park
    Cerros de Amotape National Park
    The Amotape Hills National Park is located around the Amotape District, in the northern section of the Piura Region and the extreme southern section of the Tumbes Region in Peru. It is the best well kept example of equatorial dry forests in the whole Pacific region...
    
    
  • El Angolo Game Preserve
    El Angolo Hunting enclosed land
    -Description:This hunting preserve in the region of Piura, provinces of Sullana and Talara was established July 1, 1975 through law. It has an area of 650 square kilometres....
    
    
  • Tumbes Reserved Zone
    Tumbes Reserved Zone
    The Tumbes Reserved Zone is a coastal ecological reserve in the Tumbes Region of northern Peru, near the border of Ecuador.Its purpose is to protect both animal and floral species found in the subtropical, relatively hilly dry tropical forest, species that developed in these unique environmental...
    
    
• Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha (2010)

Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

• Bañados del Este (1976)

Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

• Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare (1993)
• Delta del Orinoco (2009)

External links

• Searchable list of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves