Editing Magellanic subpolar forests (section)

{{short description|Ecoregion of southernmost South America}}
{{more references|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox ecoregion
| name = Magellanic subpolar forests
| image = Valle_del_Frances.jpg
| image_size=    
| image_alt = 
| image_caption = View of a Magellanic [[Lenga beech|lenga]] forest close to the [[tree line]] in [[Torres del Paine National Park]], [[Chile]]
| map = Ecoregion NT0402.png
| map_size = 
| map_alt = 
| map_caption = Ecoregion territory (in purple)
| country = [[Chile]]
| country1 = [[Argentina]]
| state = 
| biome = [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]]
| biogeographic_realm = [[Neotropical realm|Neotropical]]
| border = [[Patagonian steppe]]
| border1 = [[Valdivian temperate forests]]
| bird_species = 
| mammal_species = 
| area = 150500
| habitat_loss = 
| habitat_loss_ref = 
|protected = 69,938 km² (46
|protected_ref = )<ref name =Dinerstein>Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix014]</ref>
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[[File:Tierra del Fuego 3.jpg|thumb|Harberton, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.]]
[[File:Windswept tree TdP.jpg|thumb|Windswept tree, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile – "The wind only blows from the west".]]

The '''Magellanic subpolar forests''' ({{Langx|es|Bosque Subpolar Magallánico}}) are a [[terrestrial ecoregion]] of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hogan |first=C. Michael |last2=World Wildlife Fund |date=2014-05-14 |editor-last=Draggan |editor-first=Sydney |title=Magellanic subpolar forests |url=https://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Magellanic_subpolar_forests |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103153224/https://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Magellanic_subpolar_forests |archive-date=2019-11-03 |access-date=2021-04-02 |website=Encyclopedia of Earth |publisher=National Council for Science and the Environment |location=Washington DC |publication-date=2010}}</ref> and are part of the [[Neotropical realm]]. It is a [[temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]] ecoregion, and contains the world's southernmost forests.