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coastal areas of Zaire, Bengo, Luanda, and Kwanza Sul provinces to inland Huambo and Huila 
(Fig. 10); an Angolan Montane Forest-Grassland mosaic in the higher areas of Kwanza Sul, Huam¬ 
bo, Bie and Huila (also known as the Bie Escarpment as noted above, and supporting one of the 
most critically endangered and most biodiversity-rich areas in the narrow band known as “cloud 
forest” or “Angolan Escarpment Woodlands” (Clark et al. 2011); areas of Central Zambezian 
Miombo Woodlands (Fig. 11), Western Zambezian Grasslands, and Zambezian Cryptosepalum Dry 
Forest in the eastern parts of Mexico; an immense area of Angolan Miombo Woodland (Fig. 12), 
covering most of the central plateau, but extending to the coast in some areas of Kwanza Sul 
Province; most of the southern and southeast borders of the country are charactized by Zambezian 
Baikiaea Woodlands (Fig. 13) and some Zambezian Flooded Grasslands occur in the extreme 
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Figure 7. Major ecoregions of Angola (after Olson et al. 2001). 
