Magellanic moorland

The Magellanic moorland or Magellanic tundra (Spanish: Tundra magallánica) is an ecoregion on the Patagonian archipelagos south of latitude 48° S. It is characterized by high rainfall with a vegetation of scrubs, bogs and patches of forest in more protected areas.

[1] At present there are outliers of Magellanic moorland as far north as in the highlands of Cordillera del Piuchén (latitude 42° 22' S) in Chiloé Island.

[5] Edmundo Pisano identifies the following plant communities for the Magellanic moorland: Where forests occur they are made up of the following trees Nothofagus betuloides (coigüe de Magallanes), Drimys winteri (canelo), Pseudopanax laetevirens (sauco del diablo), Embothrium coccineum (notro), Maytenus magellanica (maitén), Pilgerodendron uviferum (ciprés de las Guaitecas) and Tepualia stipularis (tepú).

[22] Granitoids, schists and ancient volcanic rocks make up the basement on which soils develop.

[24] The climate where Magellanic moorland grows can be defined as oceanic, snowy and isothermal[24][25] with cool and windy summers.