Magellanic rainforest is found in the south where there is high precipitation (2.5 m per year) together with peat bogs, also known as Magellanic moorland, which transition to largely evergreen rainforest where the precipitation is approximately 0.8m per year and evergreen trees take over.
This rainforest occupies a zone of complex physical relief. In includes the foothills of the Patagonian Andes, vast ice fields and innumerable islands and fjords of southern Chile.
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| Nothofagus pumilio |
The Magellanic rainforest are subject to colder and more-humid conditions without summer drought and overlap floristically and structurally with the forest in the southernmost position of the Valdivian ecoregions.
The dominant species in Magellanic rainforest are the tall lenga (
Nothofagus pumilio) and guindo (
N. betuloides) trees. Stands of lenga cloak the mountainsides up to 600m, while the guindo prefers the damp valleys and lakeshores.
Magellanic rainforest
