El Yunque de Baracoa, Baracoa. Cuba
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A peculiar elevation of vertical slopes and flat top located 8 km off the city, Columbus described it in his diary notes of his first trip to Cuba in 1492. With the passing of time it became a local symbol, landmark and reference point for seamen sailing in its adjacent waters. The fauna of the Yunque is rich and diverse there are abundant woodpeckers, humming birds, jutias, lizards, reptiles. There is a natural viewpoint at 573 m, from which one can see a vast landscape of green mountains and rivers with the Bay of Baracoa as backdrop.
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El Yunque de Baracoa is located in Baracoa
Baracoa, located in the easternmost part of Cuba, has become one of the top tourist attractions in Guantanamo Province. Baracoa's verdant mountains and the many rivers and streams which come rushing down to the sea here form an enticing natural setting to which historic and cultural elements contribute their own attractions.
Coconut and cacao plantations are plentiful near Baracoa, but it has some unique attractions, too. For example, there's the Parra Cross, which Christopher Columbus brought to shore here in 1492-one of the 29 he left in Spanish America.
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (in the Cuchillas del Toa Preserve of the Biosphere); Alemanes Pass, the Yumuri River Valley, Boma and Mata Bays and the view from the natural terraces in La Maquina Municipality offer you scenery that will make your vacation truly memorable.
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El Yunque baracoa
El Yunque of Baracoa is a smoothed tableland situated between the banks of the rivers Duaba and Toa, it is part of the Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Preserve, it shows the category of Outstanding Natural Element and it identifies Baracoa, the first Spanish settlement in Cuba.
Its highest altitude above sea level is 575m, it is 1125m long and has a total area of 461000 square metres.
This tableland is of important aesthetic and natural value, here are remarkable singular landscape value and of fauna.
The vegetation of Mogotes where the Royal Palm and the Cocotrinax Yunquensis stand out.
Also stand out trees maderables like the Mahogany, Majagua, Cedar and Ocuje and fruit-bearing as Mango, Orange and Mammee, they are abundant the Irises and great quantity of Ferns.
The fauna, rich and varied, offers the possibility to observe endemic birds as the Carpenter, the Cuban Tody, the Cuban Trogon, Parrots, Cateyes and Hummingbirds. To this list different types of reptiles and mollusks like the Polimita.
“Great but be careful ”
Great hiking but you need to be fit and can be dangerous. We have bad weather and means crossing a river up to your chest and muddy/very slippery. Great views but it's harder than locals say. Overall around 3-4 hours to reach the top and come back
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