Tehuacán Valley matorral

Tehuacán Valley matorral
Tehuacán Valley matorral
	Landscape near San Antonio Texcala, Puebla, Mexico
	Map of the Tehuacán Valley matorral
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	deserts and xeric shrublands
Borders	Balsas dry forests; Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests; Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests; Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests;
Geography
Area	9,842 km2 (3,800 sq mi)
Country	Mexico
States	Oaxaca; Puebla; Tlaxcala;
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	1,594 km² (16%)

The Tehuacán Valley matorral is a xeric shrubland ecoregion, of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in eastern Central Mexico.

Matorral is a Spanish word, along with tomillares, for shrubland, thicket or bushes. The term is used alone for a Mediterranean climate ecosystem in Southern Europe.

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