 Accordingly, these plants can be found in the Andean highlands, from northern Chile to Colombia, in the Sechura Desert of coastal Peru, in the cloud forests of Central and South America, in southern United States from southern Virginia to Florida to Texas, and in far southern Arizona.Bromeliads often serve as phytotelmata, accumulating water between their leaves.The aquatic habitat created as a result is host to a diverse array of invertebrates, especially aquatic insect larvae .