Sinaloan dry forests

Sinaloan dry forests
Sinaloan dry forests
	View from Acatitán, Sinaloa, Mexico
	The map of Sinaloan dry forests ecoregion
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders	List Bajío dry forests; Central Mexican matorral; Jalisco dry forests; Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves; Meseta Central matorral; Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests; Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forests; Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests;
Geography
Area	77,201 km2 (29,807 sq mi)
Country	Mexico
States	Sinaloa; Nayarit; Chihuahua; Jalisco,; Sonora;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Global 200	Mexican dry forests
Protected	7,815 km2 (10%)

The Sinaloan dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in western Mexico. It is the northernmost ecoregion of the Neotropical realm.

^ "Sinaloan dry forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
^ Dinerstein, Eric [in German]; Olson, David; Joshi, Anup; et al. (2017-04-05). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545, Supplemental material 2 table S1b. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. ISSN 0006-3568. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.