Tortuguero Lagoon

A swamp located northeast of the pond, El Cabo Caribe ("Cape Caribbean" in English), includes one of the most important areas of the reserve as a source of nesting and feeding waterflow ecosystem.Generally, Tortuguero is made up of swamps, marshes, soils of silica sand and hills.- 144 are rare and endangered - 56 live in fine white sands around the lagoon - 110 live in organic soils of swamps - 37 species are native to America All of the above are found exclusively on the Tortuguero Lagoon.In aquatic ecosystems, birds such as ruddy duck and Caribbean coot and are generally abundant.There are 23 species of fish in the lagoon, among the native are eels, tarpon, snook and mackerel bigeye.
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