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| CENTRAL AMERICA STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 2,419,420 km2 | Area of forest: 942,363.8 km2 | % Land area forested: 38.9 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Temperate and Boreal | ||||||||||
| 3 Mixed broadleaf/needleleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,555.9 | 33.7 | 2,069.5 | 756.9 | 3,783.4 | 164,405.3 | 8,199.4 | 5.0 |
| 5 Deciduous broadleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 7 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 649.7 | 69.2 | 48,324.8 | 718.8 | 1.5 |
| 9 Sparse trees/parkland | 0.0 | 0.1 | 15.7 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 247.3 | 13,026.8 | 266.4 | 2.0 |
| Tropical | ||||||||||
| 14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rainforest | 13,601.9 | 0.0 | 10,568.1 | 634.8 | 3,398.8 | 252.9 | 23,672.4 | 245,466.3 | 52,128.9 | 21.2 |
| 15 Lower montane forest | 2.6 | 0.0 | 3,737.7 | 0.0 | 290.5 | 0.0 | 4,662.9 | 186,798.3 | 8,693.7 | 4.7 |
| 16 Upper montane forest | 326.7 | 0.0 | 3,273.3 | 0.0 | 448.3 | 0.0 | 4,043.6 | 88,930.5 | 8,091.9 | 9.1 |
| 17 Freshwater swamp forest | 2,861.7 | 0.0 | 780.3 | 15.5 | 995.5 | 0.0 | 403.6 | 13,209.5 | 5,056.7 | 38.3 |
| 18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest | 405.9 | 0.0 | 978.6 | 1.5 | 836.0 | 0.0 | 3,114.1 | 9,785.0 | 5,336.2 | 54.5 |
| 19 Mixed needleleaf/broadleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.5 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 449.8 | 17,015.5 | 489.2 | 2.9 |
| 20 Needleleaf forest | 9.2 | 0.0 | 789.6 | 0.2 | 845.7 | 0.0 | 401.6 | 42,745.3 | 2,046.4 | 4.8 |
| 21 Mangrove | 76.6 | 0.0 | 144.7 | 26.5 | 1,684.3 | 6.4 | 876.6 | 16,393.3 | 2,815.1 | 17.2 |
| 22 Disturbed natural forest | 140.1 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 23.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 110.9 | 9,458.5 | 282.0 | 3.0 |
| 23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest | 0.1 | 0.0 | 998.6 | 0.0 | 590.4 | 0.2 | 1,027.2 | 61,199.8 | 2,616.4 | 4.3 |
| 25 Thorn forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 60.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 137.8 | 3,450.3 | 198.1 | 5.7 |
| 26 Sparse trees/parkland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.3 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 389.1 | 22,153.5 | 434.5 | 2.0 |
| Total | 17,424.9 | 0.1 | 22,967.2 | 735.3 | 11,190.7 | 1,666.1 | 43,389.4 | 942,363.8 | 97,373.7 | 10.3 |
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