Karstic plain of recent geological formation, which houses an extensive area of lagoons and swamps and many caves. It has great diversity and ecosystem richness, with predominance of marine-coastal and tropical dry forest with a variety of plant formations, including semideciduous forests, evergreen, mangroves, xeromorph coastal and subcoastal shrubs, sandy and rocky coast vegetation and anthropic savannas. The marine area protects one of the best-preserved coral reef ecosystems in the country and the most diverse in the Caribbean, with seabed of spectacular beauty. The economy of the region is based on forest harvesting activities, beekeeping, nature and rural tourism and agricultural activity represented by the cultivation of tobacco, viands, vegetables, grains and fruit trees. In the territory there are five rural communities that have the basic infrastructure of services and have access to all economic and social development programs in the country.
Declaration Date: 1987
Country: Cuba
Surface Area: 156,202 ha
Resident population: 1,684 inhabitants
Contact: Lázaro Márquez Llauger lmarquez@vega.inf.cu
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