The Western Ghats, also called the Sahyadri, is a mountain range stretching 1,600 kilometers along India's west coast and covering roughly 160,000 square kilometers. It is not a single uniform rainforest but a mosaic of montane rain forest, moist and dry deciduous forest, scrub, peat bogs, swamps and montane grassland, which is why it is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site rather than treated as one plain ecoregion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches 1,600 km (1,000 mi) along the west coast of India.
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It is not a single uniform rainforest but a mosaic of montane rain forest, moist and dry deciduous forest, scrub, peat bogs, swamps and montane grassland, which is why it is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site rather than treated as one plain ecoregion.
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an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India
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