The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the

Greater Antilles The Greater Antilles ( es, Grandes Antillas or Antillas Mayores; french: Grandes Antilles; ht, Gwo Zantiy; jam, Grieta hAntiliiz) is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, a ...

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Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

, Hispaniola,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

, and

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...

Geography

Mangroves are estimated to cover 5,569 km in Cuba (or 4.8% of the country); 134 km in Haiti; 325 km in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

; and 106 km in Jamaica. Some ecoregion systems include the Greater Antilles mangroves, Bahamian mangroves, and

Lesser Antilles mangroves The Lesser Antilles mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1416) covers the salt-water habitats along the coasts of the islands on the divide between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. the included islands stretch from Anguilla in the north to the ...

within a single Bahamian-Antillean mangroves ecoregion."Bahamian-Antillean mangroves". DOPA Explorer. Accessed 28 December 2020

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Protected areas

30.5% of the ecoregion is in protected areas. These include Habitat/Species Management Area of Cahouane, La Cahouane and Three Bays Protected Area in Haiti.

References

External links

* {{WWF ecoregion , id=nt1410, name=Greater Antilles mangroves
Bahamian-Antillean mangroves (DOPA)

Greater Antilles mangroves (Encyclopedia of Earth)
Ecoregions of Cuba Ecoregions of the Dominican Republic Ecoregions of Haiti Ecoregions of Jamaica Ecoregions of Puerto Rico Mangrove ecoregions Neotropical ecoregions