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Mangrove trees in the ecoregion are characteristically red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), Black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus). [1] Also present are 'pygmy mangrove' that includes swamp sawgrass (Cladium mariscus) and spikerushes (Eleocharis cellulosa).
The Maya Forest is a tropical moist broadleaf forest that covers much of the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.It is deemed the second largest tropical rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon, with an area of circa 15 million hectares (150,000 km 2), of which at least 3 million (30,000 km 2) lie within protected areas.
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The Yucatán dry forests occupy the northwestern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. They cover most of the state of Yucatán, the northern portion of Campeche, and small areas of northwestern Quintana Roo. It is bounded on the east and south by the Yucatán moist forests ecoregion.
Approximately 25 to 50% of the trees lose their leaves during the annual dry season. Manilkara zapota is the most common forest tree; others include Brosimum alicastrum , Pimenta dioica , Lonchocarpus castilloi , Pouteria campechiana , Swietenia macrophylla , Alseis yucatanensis , Zuelania guidonia , Cedrela odorata , Swartzia cubensis ...
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biósfera Ría Lagartos) (established 2004) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.The reserve is located at the eastern end of the coastal strip of the Yucatán Peninsula, with the Gulf of Mexico at its northern limit.
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