Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Laurisilva of Madeira' has mentioned 'Region' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Most Laurel forest species are evergreen, and occur in tropical, subtropical, and mild temperate regions and cloud forests of the northern and southern hemispheres, in particular the Macaronesian islands, southern Japan, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Tasmania, and central Chile, but they are pantropical, and for example in Africa they are endemic to the Congo region, Cameroon, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, in lowland forest and Afromontane areas. | WIKI |
| The drying of the region since the Pliocene and cooling during the ice ages caused these rainforests to retreat. | WIKI |
| In the Mediterranean region, remnant laurel forest is present on some islands of the Aegean Sea, on the Black Sea coast of Iran and Turkey, including the Castanopsis and true laurus forests, associated with Prunus laurocerasus, and conifers such as Taxus baccata, Cedrus atlantica, and Abies pinsapo. | WIKI |
| Some common forest types in this region include Castanopsis tribuloides mixed with Schima wallichi, Rhododendron spp., Lyonia ovalifolia, Eurya acuminata, and Quercus glauca; Castanopsis-Laurales forest with Symplocas spp. | WIKI |
| Rainfall is generally greater than 700 millimetres per year (28xc2xa0in/year), and can exceed 2,000 millimetres (79xc2xa0in) in some regions, occurring throughout the year or during winter or summer, depending on the region. | WIKI |
| Several species of Yucca and Opuntia are native as well to the drier sandy coastal scrub environment of the region, including Yucca aloifolia, Yucca filamentosa, Yucca gloriosa, and opuntia stricta. | WIKI |
| Characteristic of this region are deep ravines formed by the rivers, such as that of the Tarma River descending to the San Ramon Valley, or the Urubamba River as it passes through Machu Picchu. | WIKI |
| The laurel forests of the region are known as the Laurisilva Misionera, after Argentina's Misiones Province. | WIKI |
| Zealandia was originally thought to have no native land mammals, but a recent discovery in 2006 of a fossil mammal jaw from the Miocene in the Otago region shows otherwise. | WIKI |