El Yunque
El Yunque is the name of a mountain and a national forest of the the United States, in the past national forest of the the Caribbean, located on the island of Puerto Rico.
Named according to a divinity Taino, Yuquiyú meaning " forest of nuages" , it is in fact a wet tropical forest of a surface of 113 km ², located in a mountainous zone culminating at 1078 m (peak El Yunque). It became National park in the United States of America in 1903, and for this reason represents a single academy of some 240 species of trees, including 23 completely endemic, and about fifty endemic species of orchises. It habrite also 130 single epèces animal certain, and often in danger, like the parrot of Puerto Rico, the boa of Puerto Rico, and ten species lizards and frogs (of which the symbol of the island, an arboricolous and noisy frog named Coquí).
It is one of the wettest forests in the world with annual precipitations of approximately 6 m is 380 million m ³ of water. It rains on average downpour 3 times per day. El Yunque also has single Pétroglyphe S of the tribes which lived it.
There exist many footpaths of all levels, which however require to be provided with adapted clothing because the tropical rain is quasi permanent.
External bond
Official site of El Yunque (in English)
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