Socio-Economic Conditions

The Tropical Andes has a wide range of socio-economic conditions.
There lies the largest known variety of amphibian species in the world. There are an outstanding 664 species of amphibians with 450 of those species listed as endangered.

This has a lot to do with the fact that only one fourth of the regions original habitat still exists. In the places where the Incas lived only 10% of original habitat remains due to being degraded.