Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

These plants formed lowland forests along the banks of rivers.

Both species can be found in mountainous and lowland swampy areas.

In the western region, the Sakawa (river) runs through a small lowland, the Sakawa Lowland, between Hakone Volcano to the west and the Ōiso Hills to the east and flows into Sagami Bay.

But environmental degradation and the onslaught of lowland mainstream cultures now threaten their healing traditions.

Habits The lowland paca is mostly nocturnal and solitary and does not vocalize very much.

Small purchases were made with cacao beans, which had to be imported from lowland areas.

Kiev expanded to the Dnieper's lowland left bank ( to the east ) only in the 20th century.

Schellenberg is a municipality in the lowland area of Liechtenstein, on the banks of the Rhine.

The strain is apparently derived from gorilla SIV (SIVgor), first isolated from western lowland gorillas in 2006.

To the east, big rivers carry silt from the mountains, forming the vast lowland interspersed by swamps.

The fertile lowland bordering the Trondheimsfjord was probably the most important power centre in the Viking Age.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

It comprises of jungle forests and contains both montane and lowland forest and is accessible only on foot.

This extended lowland is known as the Great European Plain, and at its heart lies the North German Plain.

The northern part of the island forms a lowland plain that comprises some two thirds of the surface area.

Among plants of Venezuela, over 25,000 species of orchids are found in the country's cloud forest and lowland rainforest ecosystems.

The city is on a strip of coastal lowland and extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains.

The coastal regions have mild winters and warm and generally dry summers, although lowland valleys can be quite hot in summer.

Lakes A city between the rivers, built from lowland, Hanoi has many scenic lakes and it is sometimes called city of lakes .

Vargem Grande do Sul (translation Southern Great Lowland) is a municipality in the northeast of the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

Alectryon excelsus, commonly known as tītoki, is a shiny leaved tree native to New Zealand, where it occurs in coastal and lowland forests.

The nearby diving support vessel Lowland Cavalier reported the initial explosion just before 22 00, and the second explosion occurred twenty two minutes later.

The centre of the country is a region of lowland plains, containing forests, bush and farmland, that occupies about 43 of Sierra Leone's land area.

Demographics According to data from demographic census carried out by IBGE in 2010, the population of Greater Lowland is concentrated almost entirely in the urban area.

Studies of the Tuxtla Mountain settlements, some away, indicate that this area was composed of more or less egalitarian communities outside the control of lowland centers.

An adult female Western lowland gorilla used a branch as a walking stick apparently to test water depth and to aid her in crossing a pool of water.

The major division of Scotland is the Highland Boundary Fault, which separates the land into 'highland' to the north and west, and 'lowland' to the south and east.

The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which at its peak covered an area from Lowland Scotland and Morocco to the Euphrates.

It occasionally ranges to lowlands in eastern Bolivia and southwestern Brazil, descends to lowland desert areas in Chile and Peru, and is found over southern beech forests in Patagonia.

The topography of Saitama Prefecture is largely divided by the Hachiōji Tectonic Line, which runs through Kodama, Ogawa, and Hannō, into the western mountain area and the eastern lowland area.

As its population recorded in 2000 was 215,298 inhabitants, Greater Lowland grew 17.37 in ten years or 1.73 per year with an absolute growth of 37,411 people in that period.

Hetzron (1980 70ff) and Ehret (1995) have suggested that the Rift languages (South Cushitic) are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, the only one of the six groups with much internal diversity.

Prey Lang is the largest primary lowland dry evergreen forest remaining both in Cambodia and on the Indochinese Peninsular Prey Lang is arguably the largest intact area of indigenous land left in Cambodia.

Most of the country consists of lowland terrain, with mountainous terrain north west of the Tees Exe line including the Cumbrian Mountains of the Lake District, the Pennines and limestone hills of the Peak District, Exmoor and Dartmoor.

Cambodian culture not only includes the culture of the lowland ethnic majority, but also some 20 culturally distinct hill tribes colloquially known as the Khmer Loeu, a term coined by Norodom Sihanouk to encourage unity between the highlanders and lowlanders.

In Indonesia large areas of lowland forest have been cleared to increase palm oil production, and one analysis of satellite imagery concluded that during 1998 and 1999 there was a loss of 1,000 Sumatran orangutans per year in the Leuser Ecosystem alone.

With two ports Suape and Porto de Galinhas higher than the lowland of the northeast massapê, Ipojuca was part of the colonial triangular trade Hens earned this name because it was stated that if the slaves arrived from Africa in that period.

Farming was and still is important in the whole county, with the most economical important agriculture taking place in the fertile lowland valleys, such as in Melhus, Orkdal, Skaun, Midtre Gauldal, Malvik and Trondheim, but also near the outer seaboard, such as in Ørland and Rissa.

Guinea is divided into four geographic regions A lowland belt running north to south behind the coast (Lower Guinea), which is part of the Guinean forest savanna mosaic ecoregion the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands (Middle Guinea) the northern savanna (Upper Guinea) and a southeastern rain forest region (Forest Guinea).

Few historians would refer to the area of Fazenda, until Father José António Camões elaborated on the history of the island from the Ribeira Funda, He would recount, In about 55 arms lengths, the river runs to the sea along a cliff called Fazenda...continuing to the south southeast, In the same bay, is a lowland called Cherne.

Natural hazards Droughts some lowland areas threatened by rising levels of the Caspian Sea Environment current issues Local scientists consider the Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) (including Baky and Sumqayit) and the Caspian Sea to be the ecologically most devastated area in the world because of severe air, water, and soil pollution soil pollution results from the use of DDT as a pesticide and also from toxic defoliants used in the production of cotton.

(That day) when you were at one end of the valley, (the unbelievers) at the other, and the caravan below you (on the lowland by the coast), you would surely have declined to fight if (the Makkans) had offered you battle. (But the battle did take place) that God may end the matter which had been accomplished, so that he who had to die may perish after a clear demonstration, and he who had to live may survive in the light of positive proof, for God hears all and knows everything.