Central American Pacific Islands

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The Central American Pacific Islands is a biogeographical area used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. It has the Level 3 code "CPI". It consists of a number of islands off the western coast of Central America in the Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Cocos Island and Malpelo Island. [1]

Clipperton Island is the most north-westerly, lying off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Politically it belongs to France. [2] Cocos Island and Malpelo Island lie south of Panama, although Cocos Island belongs to Costa Rica [3] and Malpelo Island to Colombia. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Brummitt, R.K. (2001), World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 (PDF), International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG), archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-25, retrieved 2018-01-17
  2. ↑ "Eastern Pacific Ocean, southeast of Mexico", Terrestrial Ecoregions, World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2018-01-17
  3. ↑ Hogue, C.; Miller, S. (1981), "Entomofauna of Cocos Island, Costa Rica", Atoll Research Bulletin, 250: 1–29
  4. ↑ Schneider, P., "Malpelo Island the "Mount Everest" of shark and large pelagic diving", Advanced Diver Magazine Digital, retrieved 2018-01-17


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