matorral
Sign in to save300px|right|thumb|Springtime in Chilean matorral a few kilometers north of [[Santiago along the Pan-American Highway]] Matorral is a Spanish word which, along with the near-synonymous tomillares, broadly applies to shrubland, thicket, or bushes. It is used in naming and describing a Mediterranean climate ecosystem in Southern Europe.
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300px|right|thumb|Springtime in Chilean matorral a few kilometers north of [[Santiago along the Pan-American Highway]] Matorral is a Spanish word which, along with the near-synonymous tomillares, broadly applies to shrubland, thicket, or bushes. It is used in naming and describing a Mediterranean climate ecosystem in Southern Europe.
==Mediterranean region== Matorral originally referred to the matorral shrublands and woodlands in the Mediterranean climate regions of Spain and other Mediterranean Basin countries. These scrub shrublands and woodlands are a plant community and a distinct habitat. Other common general names for this Mediterranean region shrubland habitat ecosystem are maquis and garrigue in France, macchia Mediterranea in Italy, phrygana in Greece, mato Portugal, batha in Israel. The term is now used more broadly to include similar bio-assemblages wherever they occur.