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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 ...
Puerto Rican dry forests. 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]
The environment of the nature reserve belongs to the Puerto Rican dry forest and Greater Antilles mangroves ecoregions. [5] Administratively, La Parguera Nature Reserve is intended to protect an ecological corridor between the Boquerón and Guánica State Forests. [1]
Research forest used to study reforestation in urban areas. Part of the Northern Puerto Rico karst. [60] (G, O, R, W) 18: Susúa: Sabana Grande and Yauco 1935: 3,241 [61] Important transition zone between the tropical dry forest and the tropical rainforest in the foothills of the Cordillera Central. Home to the endangered Puerto Rican nightjar ...
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.
One of the few remaining Puerto Rican dry forests in addition to mangrove forests, caves and an important sea turtle nesting site. One of the last four places in the world where higo chumbo Harrisia portoricensis can be found. [7] 4 Camuy River: Camuy and Hatillo: 2018 2,536
Caja de Muertos, with an area of 0.59 sq mi (1.54 km 2 ), is the largest island in the nature reserve. It is part of the Playa barrio of the municipality of Ponce. The island of Caja de Muertos is the main geographical feature of the reserve; it is located 4.8 nautical miles south of the coast of Puerto Rico.
The largely intact forest of the Guánica Dry Forest reserve hosts the greatest number of bird species found on the island, including several bird species seldom found anywhere else: the Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo, Puerto Rican woodpecker, the Puerto Rican nightjar, and the Puerto Rican emerald hummingbird. Other animals thought to be extinct ...