5°50′00″S79°30′00″W / 5.8333°S 79.5000°W /-5.8333; -79.5000
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TheHuancabamba Depression is an east–west depression through theAndes Mountains of northernPeru. The Huancabamba Depression interrupts theCentral andEastern Cordilleras of the Andes, and theMarañón River and its tributaries drain eastward through the depression into theAmazon basin. TheWestern Cordillera has its lowest point, 2,145 meters (7,037 ft), at thePaso de Porculla.
The Huancabamba Depression is home to theMarañón dry forests, which form both abiogeographic connection between the lowland forests of the Pacific coast and the Amazon basin, and a biogeographic barrier between theNorthern Andes and theCentral Andes.[1]
