Tourist attractions
Reserved area Saint Peter Macurije:
Date of creation, legal frame: Still he finds himself in process for your legal approval for the Executive Committee of the Advice of Ministros of Cuba.
Category of handling: Refuge of Fauna.
Location: Province Camaguey.
Statistical significance: Site.
Surface: 30 400.29 is., Of them 21 331.97 terrestrial and 9 068.32 marinas.
Administration: National concern for the Protection of the Flora and the Fauna (ENPFF).
Values of the area:
Fauna Macurije Santa María's Refuge is located at the coastal plain of the region suroriental of the country, in the municipalities of Vertientes and Florida of the province Camaguey. Way departs from the system: The Coastal Southern Marsh, that he has ecological values and economic nationals and regional.
The area belongs to the Distrito Fitogeográfico Guaimarense, where they inhabit around 215 endemic species, of them 25 they are exclusive of the same and the vegetation is composed of mangroves in the low coastal zones, semi-caducous forests mesophylls and secondary savannahs with abundant palm trees (royal Roystonea) and ceiba trees (Ceiba Tree pentandra). The main lagoons that he has name Little Black, Small Mouth, Santamaría and Little Stable, covers for dense forests of mangles themselves, in which the red mangle predominates (Rhizophora mangle).
The Southern Oriental region's coastal lagoons contain 127 sorts of birds, between the ones they stand out between for its abundance the aquatic (ducks, solitary sandpipers, herons and coconuts). Big aquatic migratory species'groups, mainly of orders Charadriiformes and Anseriformes, meet there in wintertime. Birds use a rice close zone like place of nutrition, while mangroves and coastal lagoons constitute important sites of refuge. Furthermore, populations of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), that they use the zone for nutrition and reproduction have gotten registered.
Some lagoons can become highly productive (even 1 ton there is year) of some groups of fishes like Gerreidae, Mugilidae, Lutjanidae, Centropomidae, shrimps and freshwater crabs, principally (Callinectes sapidus). Next to these there are other species that do not have commercial value, but that they constitute elements of importance in the alimentary plot. The main source of primary production is the macrofitobentos, integrated for the most part for grasslands of Thalassia testudinum and for big masses of filamentous algae.
We know that the main ecological problem that confronts this region is the decrease of the water mirror and the accumulation of sediments provoked by the represamiento of rivers, but by and large not yet has affected quality and health of this ecosystem. The interaction and connectivity with the marine environment is high, which is why these lagoons sustain big juvenile populations of fishes and shrimps principally (Penaeus schmitti and Penaeus notialis), that the main ruled lines of the commercial fishing in the gulfs of Ana María and Guacanayabo represent.
Municipal museum. (Hush 7 up To and B) Telephone: 32 30 7148.
Municipal walk. (Hush Up Trajectory)
Park to the Mothers. (Street B and C)
Catholic Church. (Hush 5 up Line and To)
Municipal Culture Matches ED. (Hush Up 6 and 7) Telephone: 32 30 7888.
Batey Central.
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