This document defines indigenous species as plants or animals that live and reproduce only in a specific location within a country. It provides examples of indigenous plant species in different regions of Ecuador, such as mangroves, kapok trees, and scalesia along the coast, and polylepis, cedrela montana, and heliocarpus americanus in the Andes. Indigenous animal species mentioned include the oro parakeet, turquoise-throated puffleg in the coast, and the black-breasted puffleg, violet-throated metaltail, and condor in the Andes.
2. • A indigneus specie is a plant or animal that only live
in a specific place of a country ond can only
reproduce there.
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4. • Examples of indigenous plant of the Coast:
• Mangrove, Kapok, Capparis crotonoides.
• Examples od indigenous plant in the Andes:
• Polylepis, Cedrela montana and Heliocarpus americanus.
• Examples of indigenous plant in A mazon:
• Cedrela montana and Heliocarpus americanus.
• Examples of indigenous plant in Galapagos:
• Scalesia incisa, Scalesia cordata, Brachycereus.
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6. • Indigenous species of the coast:
• Ecuador National Endemics El oro parkeet, turqousi throated puffleg.
Indigneous species of the andes:
• Black-breasted Puffleg, nigriventris Violet-throated Metaltai, Condor.
• Indigenous species of the amazon:
• Amazon river dolphin, hoatzin, thamnophlidae.
