Ecosystems

Western Ghats

Also Known As Sahyadri

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Western Ghats." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/ecosystems/western-ghats.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Western Ghats. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/ecosystems/western-ghats

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-western-ghats,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Western Ghats},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/ecosystems/western-ghats},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Area (sq km)

160,000 1

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