The Northern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1425) covers the mangrove habitats in a series of sites along the Pacific Ocean coast of Guatemala and El Salvador.

This part of Central America is relatively dry compared to higher elevations or more southerly areas, so the wetland mangroves serve as a refuge for animals of the interior during the winter dry season.

The mangroves only extend a few kilometers inland to where the salt water influence is gone; the ecoregion surrounding the mangroves is the Central American dry forests ecoregion.

[1][2] [3] The individual mangrove sites are on the brackish margins of lagoons, bays, and river estuaries.

[6][7] The mangroves in this ecoregion are more less fully developed than those farther south because of the lower precipitation.