The archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 667 km west of the port of San Antonio. It includes the whole Archipelago with the islands of Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk and Santa Clara and all the islets in the area. It holds unique ecological characteristics, like its exceptional degree of native vascular flora endemicity (62%), with several relics. One noteworthy feature of the Juan Fernández forest is that no less than 100% of its tree species are endemic. As for fauna, highlights include the Juan Fernández firecrown, the Juan Fernández tit-tyrant and the Juan Fernández fur seal.
Declaration Date: 1977
Country: Chile
Surface Area: 1,216,483.43 ha (Terrestrial: 9,967.15 ha; Marine: 1,206,516 ha)
Resident population: 786 inhabitants
Contact: Claudio Ilabaca claudio.ilabaca@conaf.cl
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