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    Matorral is a Spanish word, along with tomillares, for shrubland, thicket or bushes. It is used in naming and describing a Mediterranean climate ecosystem...
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    The Chilean Matorral (NT1201) is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests...
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    The Tamaulipan matorral is an ecoregion in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental range in northeastern...
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    GCFV), also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. It is situated in El Matorral, 5 km (3 mi) southwest...
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    Tehuacán Valley matorral is a xeric shrubland ecoregion, of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in eastern Central Mexico. Matorral is a Spanish...
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    The Central Mexican matorral is an ecoregion of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome of central Mexico. It is the southernmost ecoregion of the Nearctic...
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    way to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub of the Chilean Matorral ecoregion. A few coastal enclaves of Valdivian forest grow in north-central...
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    climate zones, in the mid-latitudes: the Mediterranean Basin the Chilean Matorral the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California and the...
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    Desert to the north, the Meseta Central matorral on the central part of the plateau, and the Central Mexican matorral on the southern plateau. Much of the...
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    evergreen sclerophyll shrubs and small trees, called: Chaparral in California Matorral in Chile, Mexico, and Spain Maquis in France and elsewhere around the Mediterranean...
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    The Meseta Central matorral is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion in north-central Mexico. The Meseta Central matorral occupies the central portion...
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    northern plateau, while the Meseta Central matorral covers the central portion, and the Central Mexican matorral extends from the southern portion of the...
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    California, the fynbos in South Africa, the mallee in Australia, and the matorral in Chile. Areas with this climate are also where the so-called "Mediterranean...
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    world's richest desert fauna. The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. The Carnarvon xeric shrublands...
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    the Río Grande de Santiago and the lower Rio Lerma. The Central Mexican matorral lies to the north of the range in the high basins of the Plateau, including...
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    Pampas de la Joya desert. Peru borders it on the north and the Chilean Matorral ecoregion borders it on the south. To the east lies the less arid Central...
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    to the northeast and east in Arizona, the Meseta Central matorral and Central Mexican matorral to the southeast, and the Sinaloan dry forests to the west...
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    Meseta Central matorral Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests Sierra Madre Oriental pine–oak forests Sonoran Desert Tamaulipan matorral Tamaulipan mezquital...
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    The pale-bellied tapaculo (Scytalopus griseicollis), also known as the matorral tapaculo or rufous-rumped tapaculo, is a species of bird in the family...
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    in the mid-ground Bolster heath Chalk heath Garrigue Maquis shrubland Matorral Scrubland Polunin, Oleg; Walters, Martin (1985). A Guide to the Vegetation...
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    reduced much of the region to the sclerophyll shrublands known as chaparral, matorral, maquis, or garrigue. Conservation International has designated the Mediterranean...
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    Common degu (category Fauna of the Chilean Matorral)
    historically, the degu, is a small hystricomorpha rodent endemic to the Chilean matorral ecoregion of central Chile. The name degu on its own indicates either the...
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  • Independent Mexico; Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos y Pavón Desert and matorral ecosystems represented by the golden eagle and El Pinacate y Gran Desierto...
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    El Hierro Airport [42] Fuerteventura GCFV FUE Fuerteventura Airport (El Matorral Airport) [43] Fuerteventura Aeródromo del Jarde (Antigua) Gran Canaria...
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    Tenerife with Naviera Armas. Fuerteventura Airport is situated near El Matorral, 6 km south of Puerto del Rosario. Popular University. Puerto del Rosario...
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    Maquis shrubland (category Matorral shrubland)
    Maquis (UK: /mæˈkiː/ ma-KEE, US: /mɑːˈkiː/ mah-KEE, French: [maki]) or macchia (/ˈmɑːkiə/ MAH-kee-ə, Italian: [ˈmakkja]; often macchia mediterranea in...
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    mid-1960s, facilitated by the construction of Fuerteventura Airport at El Matorral and the first tourist hotels. The island's proximity (a mere 100 km) to...
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    and ice fields. At lower elevations, this ecoregion grades into Chilean matorral and Valdivian temperate forests to the west and High Monte to the east...
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    collections; oasis, Canary Island crest, and Mediterranean slope. The Chilean Matorral garden 20.43 acres (8.27 ha) will be devoted to the flora of central Chile...
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  • Central matorral Mexico Mojave Desert United States Snake–Columbia shrub steppe United States Sonoran Desert Mexico, United States Tamaulipan matorral Mexico...
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