Sinaloan dry forests
The Sinaloan dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in western Mexico. It lies in the coastal plain and foothills between the Pacific Ocean and the pine-oak forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental, covering most of Sinaloa and Nayarit states and extending into portions of adjacent Sonora, Chihuahua, and Jalisco states.
The characteristic vegetation is thorn forest with acacias and cacti. The forests are dry in the dry season which is in October to June, and green in the summer wet season.
The forest covers an area of approximatelyFlora
The forests has Acacia, barrel cacti such as the southwestern barrel cactus, and prickly pear cacti.
