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Jeannette Kawas National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Jeannette Kawas) is a national park located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras, established on 4 November 1994. The park covers an area of 781.62 square kilometres and has an altitude of 900 metres. The park was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat).
History
The park was established on 4 November 1994, originally named Punta Sal National Park. It was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat).
Its name was changed to Jeannette Kawas National Park in honor of Jeannette Kawas, an environmental activist and PROLANSATE president who was murdered on February 6, 1995 for her work trying to keep the palm plantations out of the park.
Jeannette Kawas National Park is part of the Ramsar Convention List of Wetlands of International Importance and was designated as such on March 28, 1995.
Geography
The park is located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras. Located at 15º51'N 087º40'W between longitudes 87º29' and 87º52' west and latitudes 15º42' and 16º00'. It covers an area of 781.62 square kilometres and has an altitude of 900 metres.
Ecosystems
The park is made up of varied marine, terrestrial and wetlands ecosystems with a large number of species. These ecosystems include beaches, tropical forests, inundated forests, mangrove forests, lagoons and rivers.
Species
= Birds
=Keel-billed motmot
Turquoise-browed motmot
Green-breasted mountain-gem
Lovely cotinga
Resplendent quetzal
Bushy-crested jay
Blue-crowned chlorophonia
Lesser ground-cuckoo
= Mammals
=West Indian manatee
Common dolphin
White-headed capuchin
Howler monkey
= Fishes
=Tarpon
Centropomus
Gafftopsail catfish
= Reptiles
=American crocodile
Sea turtle, such as green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, hawksbill turtle and the loggerhead turtle
Green iguana
Red-tailed boa
Mexican burrowing snake
= Arthropods
=Caribbean hermit crab
Golden silk orb-weaver
= Plants
=Acalypha skutchii
Cappatis truerchkhemii
Columnea tuerckheimii
Cordia truncatifolia
Ormosia macrocalyx
Phyllanthus elsiae
Rinorea hummelii
Salacia impressifolia
Sida antillensis
Sida troyana
See also
La Tigra National park, Honduras first national park
Honduras portal
References
Further reading
PARQUE NACIONAL PUNTA SAL Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Ramsar Information Sheet (pdf), Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS), 7 September 2011, 25 pages (in Spanish)
External links
Birds of Honduras.com Robert Gallardo, n.d.
profile of Jeanette Kawas National Park Carla Picinich, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, n.d., retrieved 9 March 2016
Interactive Map of Park Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine INFOHN.COM (Info de Honduras S.A.) 2006
Fundacion PROLANSATE web site (in Spanish) n.d.
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