Tierra caliente is a pseudo-climatalogical term used in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 to refer to those places within that realm which have a distinctly tropical climate

Climate

Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...

. The Tierra caliente forms at Sea Level to about 2,500 ft (roughly 750 m).
The Peruvian geographer Javier Pulgar Vidal used the altitude of 1,000 m as the border between the Tropical Rain forest and the Subtropical Cloud forest (Yunga fluvial).

Most locations within this zone are situated along coastal plains, but some interior basin regions also fit into the category. Here agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 is dominated by the cultivation of crops with strong tropical associations, such as banana

Banana

Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

s and cherries.

See also

• Köppen climate classification
  Köppen climate classification
  The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by Crimea German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen himself, notably in 1918 and 1936...
  
  
• Altitudinal zonation
  Altitudinal zonation
  Altitudinal zonation in mountainous regions describes the natural layering of ecosystems that occurs at distinct altitudes due to varying environmental conditions. Temperature, humidity, soil composition, and solar radiation are important factors in determining altitudinal zones, which consequently...
  
  

]], Ecoregion border: 2,500 ft or 1,000 m (Javier Pulgar Vidal)

• Tierra fria
  Tierra fría
  Tierra fría is a pseudoclimatological term used in parts of Latin America to refer to mountain locations within that cultural realm, where high elevation results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude.To a climatologist, the term is inaccurate,...
  
  , Ecoregion border, 6,000 ft or 2,300 m (Javier Pulgar Vidal)
• Tierra helada
  Tierra helada
  Tierra helada is a term used in Latin America to refer to the highest places found within the Andes mountains.Tierra helada is for the Montane grasslands and shrublands, Sunis, Punas and Paramos between the Treeline and the Snow line...
  
  , Ecoregion border, Treeline: 12,000 ft or 3,500 m (Javier Pulgar Vidal)