La Tigra National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Honduras
About La Tigra National Park
This is a large park, covering an area of 23,800 hectares. La Tigra became the first park in theHonduras national parkssystem in 1980, although it had been protected as a nature reserve for almost 30 years prior to that. In the first half of the 20th century, the area suffered from deforestation as trees were regularly cut as building supplies for the growing capital city nearby as well as to supply firewood to nearby communities. Since the government stepped in, the park's recovery has been remarkable with new growth oak forest thriving in the wet mountainous landscape. As the forests matured, wildlife returned. It's a mountainous landscape blanketed in green with dry pine forest, lush rainforest, and highland cloud forests. Numerous streams flow down the mountains with rocky rapids and e
La Tigra National Park Travel Guide Sections
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