Pantanos de Centla
The Centla swamps is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southern Mexico, which includes seasonally flooded forests and wetlands, in the summer.Setting
The ecoregion covers an area of in the states of Tabasco and Campeche. The Centla swamps occupy the delta of the Usumacinta and Grijalva rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Mexico and the Laguna de Términos through numerous distributaries. The ecoregion includes year-round wetlands, and freshwater swamp forests which are inundated during the summer rainy season.
The Usumacinta mangroves lie in the brackish-water zone between the Centla swamps and the open water of the Laguna de Términos and the Gulf. The Petén-Veracruz moist forests lie to the west and south, and the Yucatan moist forests lie to the east.Flora
most of the flora is based on algae.Fauna
Two of the most famous animals in Centla are the Morelet crocodile and the alligator gar, known as pejelagarto, a fish that already existed during the age of dinosaurs.Conservation and threats
The Centla swamps were declared a Biosphere reserve in 2006.
