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Carite State Forest
Carite State Forest (Spanish: ''Bosque Estatal de Carite'') is a state forest and nature reserve located in the Sierra de Cayey mountain range in southeastern Puerto Rico. The forest extends over approximately 6,500 acres and is located in the municipalities of Caguas, Cayey, Guayama, Patillas and San Lorenzo. The forest is located along the ''Ruta Panorámica'' (officially the ''Luis Muñoz Marín Scenic Route''), which offers access to the forest. History Carite State Forest is one of 20 forestry units in the territory of Puerto Rico. This forest area was established by a proclamation in 1935 and was formerly listed as a state forest on July 1, 1975, through the Law of Puerto Rican Forests (Law Num. 133). The area was preserved with the intention of developing it for its timber industry. The state forest was established with the goal of protecting the hydrological basins of the Loíza, Patillas and La Plata rivers which were being affected by erosion caused by deforestat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borinquen, Caguas, Puerto Rico
Borinquen is a barrio in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 7,953. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the combined population of Borinquen barrio and Bairoa barrio was 3,870. In 1952, it became a U.S. Commonwealth. Landmarks and places of interest * Caguas Real Golf and Country Club, partially located in Borinquen. *Charco El Cantil, natural swimming pool on the Turabo River. * Plaza Turabo, a riverside park located along the Turabo River. * Terrazas de Borinquen Recreational Area, community pool and park. Gallery File:2022viewofcaguas1.jpg, Caguas Valley Caguas Valley (Spanish: ''Valle de Caguas''), or the Caguas-Juncos Valley and popularly referred to as the Turabo Valley (Spanish: ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Industry
The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry -- when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. furniture) and secondary products like wood pulp for the pulp and paper industry. Some of the largest producers are also among the biggest owners of timberland. The wood industry has historically been and continues to be an important sector in many economies. Distinction In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and trading and transport (e.g. timber rafting, forest railways, logging roads). Processing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican Rock Frog
The Puerto Rican rock frog (''Eleutherodactylus cooki''), also known as the Puerto Rican cave-dwelling frog or rock coqui, and locally as ''coquí guajón'', or ''guajón'' for brevity, is a threatened frog species from the coqui genus. This unique species of tropical frogs dwells primarily in crevices and grottos in the Cuchilla de Panduras mountain range in southeastern Puerto Rico.Recovery Plan for the Guajón or Puerto Rican Demon. FWS, 2004: http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/040924b.pdf The native name ''guajón'' is derived from its habitat, ''guajonales'', which are caves formed by rock formations between huge stones. Despite being the state animal and considered emblematic of the region, of the 17 species of coquí, three are believed to be extinct and the rest are rare and declining in numbers. The Puerto Rican rock frog is extremely restricted in geographical distribution. The frog is threatened due to deforestation, agricultural, rural, and industrial development, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web-footed Coquí
The web-footed coqui, stream coqui, Puerto Rican stream frog or Karl's robber frog (''Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti''), is a possibly extinct Puerto Rican frog species in the family Eleutherodactylidae. It was first described by Chapman Grant in 1931, and was named after herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt. It is the largest ''Eleutherodactylus'' species of Puerto Rico. Description The maximum size is in snout–vent length. The overall appearance is stocky. The head is wider than the body. The eyes are large and protruding. The tympanum is small but distinct. The limbs are strong and relatively short. The fingers and the toes bear large discs. The fingers have no webbing whereas the toes are extensively webbed (the only coquí to do so). Skin is warty dorsally and smooth ventrally. Dorsal coloration consists of green, yellow, and black marbling. A yellow line runs between the eyes. Another yellow line touches the lip and extends backward to the tympanum. A vague transvers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eneida's Coquí
Eneida's coquí (''Eleutherodactylus eneidae'') is a species of coquí, a small variety of frog endemic to the main island of Puerto Rico and its archipelago. Known as ''coquí de Eneida'' in Puerto Rico, this amphibian is mainly terrestrial. Its average adult size is from 1.0 to 1.2 inches. It has a number of small warts located across its back and eyelids. Its main color is a light tone of greenish or grayish brown with a yellow tint on its underbelly. They often have a pair of light colored concave lines located on their backs. Their eyes are golden or green colored, generally dark colored with black venal reticulation. Its habitat is located in mountains that are 1,000 to 3,000 feet above sea level. This species seems to have suffered a population reduction, in the process disappearing from areas formerly considered its natural habitat. The reason behind this reduction is under study, and Eneida's coquí has been designated an endangered species until the cause is discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfin Woods Warbler
The elfin woods warbler (''Setophaga angelae'') is a species of bird endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is local and uncommon. Discovered in 1968 and described in 1972, it is the most recently described New World warbler (family Parulidae). The species name, ''angelae'', is a tribute to Angela Kepler, one of its discoverers. These birds are insectivores, as they feed by gleaning small insects off the habitat leaves. Due to its small populations and restricted habitats, conservation efforts were begun in 1982 to protect this species, but as of 2005, the warbler was still in need of protection. The species is not in immediate danger as the majority of its habitat is protected forest, but introduced species (such as rats and small Asian mongooses), habitat reduction, and natural disasters represent potential threats to the population. Discovery, taxonomy and naming The elfin woods warbler is one of many species in the genus ''Setophaga'' of the New World warbler family Parulidae. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk
The Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk, ''(Accipiter striatus venator)'', ''falcón de sierra'' or ''gavilán pecho rufo'' in Spanish, is an endemic subspecies of the North American sharp-shinned hawk, occurring only in Puerto Rico. Discovered in 1912 and described as a distinct sub-species, it has been placed on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species because of its rapidly dwindling population in Puerto Rico. It can be found in the Toro Negro State Forest.''Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.'' Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. ublication/Issue: P-030Puerto Rico Depar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican Broad-winged Hawk
The Puerto Rican broad-winged hawk (''Buteo platypterus brunnescens'') is an endangered subspecies of the broad-winged hawk (''B. platypterus''). It is a small hawk that occurs in Puerto Rico, inhabiting the Toro Negro State Forest.''Bosques de Puerto Rico: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro.'' Hojas de Nuestro Ambiente. July 2008. ublication/Issue: P-030Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. Retrieved 12 September 2013. Its common name is ''guaragüao de bosqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patagioenas Inornata Wetmorei
''Patagioenas'' is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus '' Columba'' was long disputed but ultimately confirmed. It is basal to the ''Columba''-''Streptopelia'' radiation. Their ancestors diverged from that lineage probably over 8 million years ago. While the biogeographic pattern of this group suggests that the ancestors of the typical pigeons and turtle-doves settled the Old World from the Americas, ''Patagioenas'' may just as well be the offspring of Old World pigeons which only radiated into different genera later, given that the cuckoo-doves (''Macropygia'') of Southeast Asia also seem to be closely related.Johnson ''et al.'' (2001), Cheke (2005) Taxonomy The genus ''Patagioenas'' was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853 with the white-crowned pigeon (''Patagioenas leucocephala'') as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ''patageō'' meaning "to clatter" and ''oinas'' meaning "pigeon". There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Proposals for the exact age of the Barremian-Aptian boundary ranged from 126 to 117 Ma until recently (as of 2019), but based on drillholes in Svalbard the defining early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) was carbon isotope dated to 123.1±0.3 Ma, limiting the possible range for the boundary to c. 122–121 Ma. There is a possible link between this anoxic event and a series of Early Cretaceous large igneous provinces (LIP). The Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi large igneous province, emplaced in the South Pacific at c. 120 Ma, is by far the largest LIP in Earth's history. The Ontong Java Plateau today covers an area of 1,860,000 km2. In the Indian Ocean another LIP began to form at c. 120 Ma, the Kerguelen P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerro La Santa
Cerro La Santa is a 2,962 feet (903 m) high mountain and the highest point in the Sierra de Cayey in Puerto Rico. The peak of Cerro La Santa is located in the Carite State Forest, at a tri-point shared by the municipalities of Caguas ( San Salvador), Cayey ( Farallón) and San Lorenzo ( Espino). Geography Cerro La Santa is the highest point in the Sierra de Cayey, a subrange of the Central Mountain Range (Cordillera Central) of Puerto Rico. Cerro Lucero, also located within the massif, follows close by with an elevation of 2,831 feet (862 m). Although not located at the peak of the mountain, the highest point of the municipalities of Guayama and Patillas is also found within the Cerro La Santa mountain massif. The summit of Cerro La Santa is located close to PR-184. With the exception of the tall antennas which provide signal to Puerto Rico's principal TV stations such as WKAQ-TV and WAPA-TV, these mountains are heavily forested by Sierra palm trees (''Prestoea montana''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico)
Cordillera Central (English: Central Mountain Range), is the main mountain range in Puerto Rico. The range crosses the island from west to east and divides it into its northern and southern coastal plains. The Cordillera Central runs eastward from the municipality of Maricao in the west to Aibonito in the central eastern region, and on to the Caribbean in the southeast through the Sierra de Cayey. The Central Mountain Range consists of the ''Cordillera Central proper'' and numerous subranges (such as the Sierra de Cayey), foothills and ridges that extend throughout the island. Cerro de Punta is both the highest peak of the Cordillera Central and the highest point in Puerto Rico. The Sierra de Luquillo, where El Yunque is located, is sometimes included as a subrange or eastward extension of the Cordillera Central. History The region of the Cordillera Central has been inhabited since the pre-Hispanic era. During the Spanish colonization of Puerto Rico, the Cordillera Central w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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