Pinar del Rio - Nature

Cueva del Indio (Cave of the Indian) Camino a San Vicente, Valle de Viñales, Pinar del Río

Cave of the Indian is crossed by the San Juan River (navigable). Visitors enter the cave through a narrow opening and follow a well-beaten, dimly lighted stone trail for 255 meters (842 feet), narrowing and widening until you reach a high-ceilinged grotto and an underground river. You board a boat here for a short cruise (300 meters [990 feet]) past illuminated stalagmites. The boat takes you out of the cave through a narrow, vine-draped opening in the rock. 

Soroa Orchid Garden Soroa, Pinar del Rio

Soroa has a rich flora, with many species of trees, shrubs, wild orchids and ferns. In the Orchid Garden there is a large profusion of orchids, earth and epiphytes, a total of 16 species, some indigenous and some recently discovered.

Guanahacabibes National Park Península de Guanahacabibes, Pinar del Rio

Guanahacabibes peninsula is at the western end of Pinar del Rio. In this national park, considered a Reserve of the Biosphere, there is a surprising variety of landscapes and ecosystems: evergreen forests, mangrove, beach coasts with swampy vegetation, high reef coasts and sandy coasts with a vegetation of sea grapes, palm trees and mastic. The pine forests are indigenous and vast, and the grassy plains hold the richest fauna in these ecosystems. The fauna is rich on aquatic birds, mollusks and reptiles. Here is Maria la Gorda Scuba Diving Center, famous for its transparent marine landscapes, where it is possible to find multiple species of corals, the biggest colony of black coral in the Cuban seas.

Vinales National Park Valle de Viñales, Pinar del Río

Viñales National Park declared Cultural Landscape and World Heritage by UNESCO because of the way its natural features have been integrated with the activities that the valley’s farmers have engaged in over the centuries. Their impressive mogotes (tall, rounded, flat-topped heights with vertical sides) stand in sharp contrast to the red-soil plains at their bases. This area contains the oldest rocks in the country, and many fossils of marine reptiles, mollusks and fish from the Jurassic Period have been found here.

Pan Guajaibon Mountain Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Rio

The Pan de Guajaibon has a height 699 meters on the level of the sea, being the culminating point of the Rosario's Sierra and of the group of Guaniguanico to which belongs such a mountain. It presents two summits, being the Westerner the highest. In the region, there are forests semideciduos, as well as diverse bushes associations and herbaceous with 34% endemics. The fauna is characterized by its abundance, diversity and scientific importance of some species, more than 50 species of birds, among them tocororos, cartacubas, nightingales and bird carpenters.

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