Surviving in Guánica's Dry Forest in Puerto Rico
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- When we think of desert or arid land, we don't usually envision a tropical island like Puerto Rico. Now the island doesn't have a desert in the traditional sense of vast, sandy expanses. However, it does have areas classified as dry forests, which are sometimes referred to as "deserts" due to their arid conditions and unique ecosystems. The Bosque Seco de Guánica, or the dry forest of Guanica is an example of a such a place in Puerto Rico. It is considered the best preserved subtropical dry forest and the best example of dry forest in the Caribbean for a reason..Part of that reason is the ability of plants and animals to survive in the forest despite minimal water.
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i like the video but dont you have a spanish version of it
When I was a kid, I went to this desert on a school trip. We got lost because the teacher didn’t follow guidelines, so we ended up walking around for hours under extreme heat trying to find our way out and have phone service again so we could call for help. We were all scared… we even prayed together. One kid almost passed out because of the heat, and my feet were sore for days. We were rescued and came back home safely, thankfully! Years have passed and I’m all grown up, and I haven’t visited that place again, but I will never forget that desert and its heat.
@nameria Interesting story...Thank God, you're here to tell it...
@@coquireport I’m glad to be here too! 🙏🏼✨
Isla de Mona 50 miles off the west coast is uninhabited with an eco system just as the Guanica dry forest. Now this tiny island was a strong hold for pirates in its day. It has monitor lizards and they are huge, wild goats and hogs. Scuba diving off this island is an unbelievable experience. Diving in its crystal clear waters is a unique experience by its self, with its abundance of marine life and its brilliant colors. There are so many sites and experiences in and around our enchanted island that one could never get bored.
never knew puerto rico had a dry forest? this environment is excellent to grow olives, dates, figs!
Not at all.. Olives and figs would certainly fail in these environments. The growing zone there is 12/13 and non of those crops grow well in zone 12/13 this has been know for all of history. Olive cannot bear fruit at zone12/13 temperature and figs would be decimated by nematodes and heat. Do some simple research and you would discover your theory is just a foolish thoughts by someone with zero knowledge.
Don't say a thing, or some random AH will try to lobby to get the area turned into his personal source of olives figs, and dates. We are already dealing with the AirBNB fools who think they own the beaches, and try to block access.
@@EvilOtto580Amen to that! 🙏👍
Olives tress can with much difficulty, grow in the Greater Antilles, but they will not bear fruit. The Castilian Iberians tried it very early between the years of 1496 and 1502 in the islands of Hispaniola, and it was simply impossible. They also tried cultivating wheat and vids. The olive tree needs to go through a Mediterranean-like year of natural changes in climate brought by the seasons, particularly, winter to spring, to able to flower. That never happens is the Caribbean. You experience temperature changes all the way down to the 50's F high in the mountains of eastern Cuba, Hispaniola (mainly the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central, but that is as far as it goes. However, those mountain regions are also very damp, humid, and very rainy between the months of October through early February. Not a climate favorable for olives.
North African and Middles Eastern figs and dates are being grown in Puerto Rico, for example, but not for commercial purposes, just in the Agricultural Sciences laboratory land estates of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez or Utuado. I believe similar experimental agricultural projects have also being ushered in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. On the other hand, figs and dates are commercially grown in Colombia with much success.
It's not dummy. And don't delete my comment again bitch
Finally, someone talking about my island💀
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Huh 🙃
FOR REAL!!!!
I swear
We need more in depth videos like this. My Father and Uncle used to tell me some stories about the Guanica's dry forest. My Grandmother would describe the mountains in Yauco. It always intrigued me. I could spend a life time learning the Puerto Rican natural spaces. Especially the many many invertebrate species.Very underrated. The more we know the more it would be appreciated and protected. Thank you for sharing.
Wow! I never knew this part of the island existed. Thank you for sharing such information.🇵🇷
Growing up in Ponce, I spent a lot of time in that part of the island with siblings and friends. It is beautiful.
Me 2
Amazing!🇵🇷
That is one of the major biomes P.R. has, but I have to say this one is the most interesting. Its dry climate contrast the rest of the island -- which obviously is humid. Also, I have childhood memories of those golden mountains beneath the hot sun, which painted everything with its yellow glow.
¡Que viva la isla del encanto!
I had heard that Puerto Rico had a desert but didn't know where it was located at. Thank you for this information.
I knew Puerto Rico had a desert. But never saw it . Thank you for the video.
I live 10 to 15 miles west of the BOSQUE SECO and the rainfall is many times greater than the BOSQUE seco , making my area greener and almost lush. The difference in forestry and scenery in Puerto Rico ( not Porto) is very varied in small distances. Don’t believe the island is small , you can get into trouble by not taking precautions hiking in the mountains and forests.
@MrPrimoPR The video is in English, so the pronunciation of Puerto Rico will be different..
I love this video and I hope I go to Puerto Rico soon!
Do it, airfare is cheap.
Bienvenido 👋
I been living hear for years and didnt even know their was a desert cool
Wow! Pretty cool! That place looks like my home, Tucson Arizona! We have plenty of deserts and cactus 🌵 and weird beautiful looking plants, including lizards 🦎 birds 🦅 and snakes 🐍 definitely beautiful!! Love to visit one of this days and check it out!👌😎👍👉❤️
Good good good
The place I grew up in, Guánica.
Puerto Rico might be “small” but it has different biomes and they are beautiful ! I went to Coamo a while ago and seeing how desert like it was made me realize that I should get out of the tropical/forest area more 😅
Theres a part in vieques that has lots of saguaro cactus and is dry like that. We passed it on the way to pata prieta beach. There was huge hermit crabs there too❤
I SAW CACTUS IN PONCE.
@@snowlady4803 Ponce is literally next to Guanica. It's within the boundaries of the forest.
Cool!! Been to PR many times, and never knew about this forest. I'll have to visit it next time I'm there.
Good job bro
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My family's from Guayanilla not too far from Guanica and I've been there to viist relatives . Also have family that live in Salinas
Wow 😮that's awesome . I would love to visit this place sometime. ❤
Gracias ‘ Profe …
The forest also have Saguaros🏜 and Tunas.
Saludos gracias por interesante informacion.
It would be cool to see a video on the opposite end of the spectrum with wet forest in puerto rico or the mountain areas
@erickperez8770 I did a video on the Yunque rainforest like a year ago .Here it is..czcams.com/video/H-mD-oYGtXI/video.htmlsi=abUpDC9EpzOkDoaF
@@coquireport thank you!
Excellent!!
I live in puerto rico and ive never seen a desert💔
I never knew this even tho I live there
@hackrolve1753 How long have you lived there?
The cacti behind the animated frog look a bit pervy.
@heru-deshet359 Really? Lol
What has the impact been (if any) of the invasive iguana species that was introduced into the island, I believe it was back in the mid 90s?
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Im froom there sí lo sé
We might have been fooled and lead to think that PR it’s small island then what it actually is.
MrSalsa1973 It is a small island
It's bigger than Guam
doesn't hurt to try?
growing zone in puerto rico is 11-13, growing olives, dates, and figs is 10 to 7, one zone away? and if puerto rico has a desert than puerto rico might have that one zone!
Damn a desert in Puerto Rico
The first I saw in CZcams was in DR.i didn't know we had one.
2:22 So there's where you come from...
Bosk... lol, please just say bos-ke, we all know its a spanish word, don't have to leave it in half.
plus it would be nice to help puerto rico's economy! and that little area just might be 10 zone! because it's said to be puerto rico desert?
The economy would be just fine if it wasnt for the jones act. They have ruined the us. Now they want to take over puerto rico. Bah. They have ruined rincon with entitled Americans. Gringo go home
well do you have actual facts and proof and documents and studies and films that puerto ricans have try to grow these trees of olives, dates, figs? and if you do can to show me where? thanks!
@jrx2662 At no point of the video does it say that Puerto Ricans have tried to grow olives, dates, or figs..
@@coquireport my response was to TjV saying that it would fail to grow these types of trees! olives, dates, figs. When in your video describe almost the same type of climate that these trees grow in! hot dry weather.
@jrx2662 oh ok
I am from Guanica.I never see any olive tree it would be interesting .But the we have a very small vineyard farm..
@@jrx2662 olives are a zone 8/9 crop, the do not grow and bear fruit in zone 12/13 and neither do figs. PR is zone 12/13. There's your proof. Now go do some research on growing zones. Olives do poorly in zone 10/11 and I know this from personal experience growing them, so they would do very poorly and slowly die and never bear in zone 12/13. Figs would also die from heat stress and nematodes. You obviously lack knowledge on the matter, but it as simple as growing zone temperatures. PR is a true tropical growing region and all the crops you listed are not tropical at all, but temperate/Mediterranean.
Do they have snakes there to?😅
Puerto Rico has two species of native snakes ( The Puerto Rican boa and the Racer ) . Mind you , I never saw one in my 21 years living there .
I saw the boa is really dark
They're becoming more common, particularly on the central and western side of the island. Mostly Boa's but foreign species have also been introduced and are being spotted rather regularly. 7ft to 9ft Boa's have been found and reported on the local news.
Wtf! None of those first 3-4 pics are from PR
@antoniohorta5656 They're not supposed to be about PR..It's introducing the concept of desert...That's not hard to understand for most people..After the first 30 seconds of the video, all the images are Puerto Rico..
I thought it would be a nice thing for puerto rico to be self sufficient! instead all kind of bad cooking oil the clog your arteries! and why I say that? because it is said to desert climate! and where do dates and figs grow? like desert climate!
Ur a moron
The Government should protect the forest and stop dreaming about Statehood 😂
Puerto rico is already a desert.
@pexter1969 How so?
@@coquireportits a depoulation joke