Central American Pacific Islands

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 eastern 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]

See also
  • Category:Flora of the Central American Pacific Islands

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), 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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