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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 ...
Cueva Lucero (English: Star Cave) is a cave and archeological site in the Guayabal barrio of the Juana Díaz municipality, in Puerto Rico. The cave includes more than 100 petroglyphs and pictographs "making it one of the best examples of aboriginal rock art in the Antilles." It has been known to archeologists since at least the early 1900s.
La Espiral Cave (Spanish: Cueva La Espiral) is a cave and archaeological site located in the Bauta Abajo barrio in the municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. The archaeological site consists of two outcrops containing approximately 170 rock art images dating from A.D. 600–1500. [ 2 ]
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.
Tourism managed by Discover Puerto Rico encouraged the marketing of the caves in Morovis. [7] Once the final 75 acres, which need to be purchased, are purchased by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA), then the park will be properly established as Parque Nacional Las Cabachuelas. [8] [9]
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
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The highest mogote in the Northern Karst is Cerro El Sombrero in Isabela, Puerto Rico at 1,069 feet (326 m) of elevation. [4] Some renown mogote areas are the town of Florida , located on an alluvial valley completely surrounded by them, and the Arecibo Telescope which was built into a natural sinkhole surrounded by mogotes in Arecibo .