Los Haitises National Park - Samana, Dominican Republic

The visit to the National Park Los Haitises is fascinating. "My Top Tours" Excursions and Travel recommend that unforgettable tour.....

Los Haitises is one of the most extraordinary coastal natural heritage of the country

Visit the National Park Los Haitises 

The visit to the National Park Los Haitises is fascinating. It is an unforgettable tour where we will contemplate like few others in the world. It is a paradisiacal place that takes us back to the time of the dinosaurs, by the way, in Los Haitises, important scenes from the movie Jurassic Park were filmed.

 "Los Haitises is one of the most extraordinary coastal natural heritage of the country and one of the most important centers of the National System of Protected Areas in the Dominican Republik " 

Los Haitises is one of the main ecological attractions of the Dominican Republic. The Haitises constitute a karst or relief in rocks, tropical limestones in mogotes, characteristic of these climatic zones of the earth. In its external morphology it presents hills, corridors and valleys, and in its internal morphology cavities, some of large dimensions such as those of the littoral. It is a dense coastal wet forest in the southern part of the Bay of Samaná, it is an immense reserve full of caves, taino pictographs, humid forests, and hundreds of bird species, many of them endemic. The characteristic that distinguishes this mystic place from the other parks of the island are its mogotes or "lomitas", which reach up to 40 meters in height, and cover the entire surface of the park. This phenomenon occurs due to the karstic geography of the region, and the trade winds that, when hitting the mogotes, rise and produce rain almost every day of the year. 

Los Haitises National Park is one of the crown jewels of the national parks system of the Dominican Republic. Los Haitises means "mountainous land" in Taino, and the Park nourishes one of the few remaining tropical forests of the island. The park, which also has extensive mangroves, covers an area of ​​1,600 km² (618 square miles). A natural wonder replete with many keys and caves, the jungle there was used as a place for the Jurassic Park movie. It is easy to locate the Ridgway's Hawk in danger of extinction, the Hispaniolan Piculet, the Hispaniolan Carpenter, the Spanish Emerald, the pelicans, the frigate birds, the herons and many other majestic birds in flight.


Relevant of Los Haitises is discover Samana with "My Top Tours"

Visit the city of Samaná including a stop in the town of Las Terrenas. Along the way, your guide will tell fascinating facts about the area. La Churcha, a church built in 1860, was brought in parts from England and reassembled, piece by piece, in Samaná. Afterwards, you will visit the small whale museum, where you can learn about the mysteries of the humpback whale. 

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