Sierra del Rosario
Cuba · Caribbean (Pinar del Río)The first Biosphere Reserve declared in Cuba, with a pioneering model for reforesting degraded farmland
Area
265 km²
Declared in
1985
Region
Caribbean (Pinar del Río)
Climate
Tropical
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The first Biosphere Reserve declared in Cuba, with a pioneering model for reforesting degraded farmland
Declared in 1985, it was the first Cuban Biosphere Reserve recognised by UNESCO. Much of its present territory was, by the middle of the 20th century, farmland degraded by intensive coffee and other cultivation; from the 1960s an ambitious state reforestation programme gradually brought back the original forest cover, making the sierra an internationally cited case study in the ecological restoration of abandoned farmland on a large scale.
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10 species documented in Sierra del Rosario
Endemic to Cuba:Zunzuncito (colibrí abeja)
Tocororo cubano
Priotelus temnurus
Near ThreatenedZunzuncito (colibrí abeja)
Mellisuga helenae
Boa cubana
Chilabothrus angulifer
Cotorra cubana
Amazona leucocephala
Jutía conga
Capromys pilorides
Zunzún
Chlorostilbon ricordii
Anolis pardo
Anolis sagrei
Murciélago frutero jamaicano
Artibeus jamaicensis
Murciélago pescador mayor
Noctilio leporinus
Rana arborícola cubana
Osteopilus septentrionalis
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