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The Puerto Rican dry forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion located in southwestern and eastern Puerto Rico and on the offshore islands. [ 3] They cover an area of 1,300 km 2 (500 sq mi). [ 2] These forests grow in areas receiving less than 1,000 mm (39 in) of rain annually. Many of the trees are deciduous, losing their leaves during the ...
La Parguera Nature Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Natural de la Parguera) is a protected area located in the southwestern Puerto Rico, primarily in the municipality of Lajas but also covering cays and islets under the municipal jurisdictions of Guánica and Cabo Rojo. [1] The nature reserve is itself a unit of the Boquerón State Forest and it ...
The Guánica State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Guánica), popularly known as the Guánica Dry Forest (Spanish: Bosque seco de Guánica) is a subtropical dry forest located in southwest Puerto Rico. The area was designated as a forest reserve in 1919 and a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in 1981. [2] It is considered the best preserved ...
El Yunque National Forest is located on the slopes of the Sierra de Luquillo mountains, encompassing more than 28,000 acres (43.753 mi 2 or 113.32 km 2) of land, making it the largest block of public land in Puerto Rico. The forest contains and is named after named Pico El Yunque, the second highest mountain in the Sierra de Luquillo.
Guánica (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡwanika], locally [ˈwanika]) is a town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico, bordering the Caribbean Sea, south of Sabana Grande, east of Lajas, and west of Yauco. It is part of the Yauco metropolitan statistical area. Guánica barrio-pueblo, also known as Pueblo de Guánica, is the downtown of the ...
Vega State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Vega) is a state forest of Puerto Rico located in the municipalities of Vega Alta and Vega Baja.The subtropical moist forest is located in the northern coast of Puerto Rico in the middle of the karst zone known as the Carso Norteño (Northern karst), and it contains features typical of such geography such as sinkholes, caves and mogotes.
Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre de Cabo Rojo) is an 1,836-acre National Wildlife Refuge located in southwestern Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Cabo Rojo. The refuge is a habitat for number of native bird species including the endangered yellow-shouldered blackbird, locally known as mariquita ...
El Toro Wilderness ( Spanish: Selva El Toro) is a 10,254-acre (41.5 km 2) federally designated National Wilderness Preservation System unit located within El Yunque National Forest (formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest) on the Sierra de Luquillo in eastern Puerto Rico. El Toro, named after the highest peak in the forest at 3,524 feet ...