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The biosphere reserve was created to protect the Montecristo cloud forest and its rare flora and fauna. [7] A survey of the tri-national area found 3000 species of plants, 280 bird species, 98 mammal species, and 50 species of amphibians and reptiles.
The biosphere reserve was created to protect the Montecristo cloud forest and its rare flora and fauna. [2] The dense cloud forest of oak and laurel trees, which grow up to 30 meters high, houses rare wildlife species like the two-fingered anteater, striped owls, toucans, agoutis, pumas, and spider monkeys.
The Montecristo massif is an area where the borders of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador meet, and its protection was a joint initiative of these three countries, which resulted in the creation of the national parks in Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the Guatemalan Trifinio Biosphere Reserve.
Trifinio Fraternidad Transboundary Biosphere Reserve Montecristo National Park is a large national park centered on the Montecristo cloud forest in Mesoamerica . Montecristo National Park is located in the north-western tip of El Salvador , a country in Central America known for its wildlife diversity.
Montecristo Trifinio Transboundary Protected Area Complex (also known as Trifinio Fraternidad) is a transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve on the border of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. It is composed of El Salvador's Montecristo National Park , Guatemala's Trifinio Biosphere Reserve , and Honduras' Montecristo Trifinio National Park .
Most of the former forested areas in the municipality have been converted to grasslands for cattle raising, but some forests remain, particularly at the higher elevations. The forests are mostly pine, with some mixed hardwoods. The only protected area is the Trifinio Biosphere Reserve, which is also known as the Biosfera de la Fraternidad.
It is also found in Guatemala's Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve. It is found in El Salvador's Cerro de Montecristo National Park, and in the Opalaca, Montecillos, and Guajiquiro cordilleras of Honduras. Its estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is 45,000 km 2. [1]
The Central American pine–oak forests occupy an area of 111,400 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi), [1] extending along the mountainous spine of Central America, extending from the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and Chiapas Highlands in Mexico's Chiapas state through the highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to central Nicaragua.