Venezuela - Map and Statistics
| VENEZUELA STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 882,050 km2 | Area of forest: 658,590.0 km2 | % Land area forested: 74.7 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Tropical | ||||||||||
| 14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rain forest | 77131.8 | 69463.1 | 487.2 | 59745.2 | 433149.3 | 206827.3 | 47.7 | |||
| 15 Lower montane forest | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 9.0 | ||||||
| 16 Upper montane forest | 1815.1 | 76.6 | 3470.9 | 7286.5 | 5362.6 | 73.6 | ||||
| 17 Freshwater swamp forest | 6.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||
| 18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 11.7 | ||||||
| 21 Mangrove | 1117.5 | 7.8 | 180.6 | 42.9 | 5808.3 | 1348.7 | 23.2 | |||
| 23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest | 10575.4 | 267.7 | 160.5 | 14448.4 | 95980.5 | 25452.0 | 26.5 | |||
| 25 Thorn forest | 920.0 | 33.1 | 92.6 | 1990.5 | 19669.5 | 3036.2 | 15.4 | |||
| 26 Sparse trees and parkland | 6382.8 | 1111.6 | 97.7 | 2556.8 | 94983.0 | 10148.9 | 10.7 | |||
| 27 Exotic species plantations | 7.1 | 10.7 | 1704.3 | 17.8 | 1.0 | |||||
| Total | 0.0 | 0.0 | 97949.9 | 70959.8 | 1018.6 | 82265.3 | 0.0 | 658590.0 | 252193.7 | 38.3 |
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