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This is a list of caves in Puerto Rico. Aguas Buenas Cave System; Cavernas del Río Camuy; Cueva de Los Indios; Cueva del Indio; Cueva del Indio (Arecibo) Cueva La Espiral; Cueva Lucero; Cueva Sorbeto; Cueva Ventana; Cuevas Las Cabachuelas; Pozo de Jacinto
Mona Island (Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, the strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, with the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles ...
The 268-acre park built around the cave system features tours of some of the caves and sinkholes, and is one of the most popular natural attractions in Puerto Rico. After restorations necessitated by Hurricane Maria , a destructive storm that struck Puerto Rico in 2017, the park re-opened on March 24, 2021.
Cueva Ventana (English: Window Cave) is a large cave situated atop a limestone cliff in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, overlooking the Río Grande de Arecibo valley. It is visible from the PR-123 but is accessible from a trail that begins adjacent to a Puma gas station located along PR-10 on kilometer 75. The cave and surrounding land are privately owned.
Only the main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km 2]), and Culebra (10 sq mi [26 km 2]) are inhabited. Mona Island (22 sq mi [57 km 2 ]) has personnel from the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) stationed year-around but no private citizens inhabit it ...
The island of Mona was inhabited by the Taíno people in the Pre-Columbian era [3] and it contains several archaeological and petroglyph sites, most of them in the limestone caves of the island. [7] The caves also contain graffiti from the Spanish colonial and piracy times. [8] Mona, along with Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra, were ceded to ...
It is believed the island is only some 4,000 years old, and stone art left on the island attests it has been visited by man over milennnia. [6] Taíno natives made frequent trips to the island on fishing expeditions, and when they were defeated by the Spanish during the 1511 battle of Spanish–Taíno War for Borikén, the natives attempted a retreat to the Caja de Muertos but shortly ...
Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve consists mainly of a large peninsula located in the north-westernmost corner of Puerto Rico and its surrounding bodies of water. The reserve is connected to the west to Seven Seas State Park (Parque Nacional Seven Seas) and the Northeast Ecological Corridor, and by sea in the east to La Cordillera Reef Nature Reserve, a large protected marine area consisting ...