A natural environment in the North Coast Dom. Rep.

The first rules to protect nature of the Dominican Republic the date from 1907, with the creation of national service care countryside intended primarily to safeguard the main natural resource of the nation: the forest.

There is no doubt that forests have always represented the natural resource of Dominican Republic for excellence and the history of the conservation of nature always have to highlight the most relevant facts that are associated with their deterioration or conservation. There the importance that gave the Dominican Government to forest resources at the beginning of the century, in terms of their role as the main source of foreign exchange and wealth.

In the northern area is the community of Rio San Juan from where it is possible to take a boat excursion through the mangrove lagoon “Gri-Gri” National Park and La Isabela, Puerto Plata, which remains of Columbus stay on the island.

For those who visit Puerto Plata, we recommend taking the cable car to appreciate from the top of Loma Isabel the natural beauty of the environment in the region.

Montecristi National Park located 20 kilometers from the town of Montecristi has 530 square kilometers of forest and small islands called The Cayos de los 7 hermanos. There is a scientific area reservation on the Loma Isabel Torres, called: Villa Elisa and Loma Quita Espuela.

With that same kind Vico offers beautiful land in Puerto Plata, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean from his best side, the north coast, also has a view of the Peak Isabela. It is worth seeing!

It is worth knowing in detail this work on Dominican forests, not only because it accurately portrays the reality of nature on the beginning of the century, if not because it gives us to know how important the forest resources are, for the life of the country at that then. In addition, a thorough analysis of it’s implied that a job very well done despite the fact that it performed in the most precarious that we can imagine, since the beginning of the century, the country did not have a road system that efficiently connected different regions, so he had to travel the country on foot and on mule.