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Central American Pacific Islands

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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 western coast of Central America in the Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Cocos Island and Malpelo Island.

Clipperton Island is the most north-westerly, lying off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Politically it belongs to France. Cocos Island and Malpelo Island lie south of Panama, although Cocos Island belongs to Costa Rica and Malpelo Island to Colombia.

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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), archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-25, 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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