Bosque del Pueblo

The Black-whiskered Vireo (Vireo altiloquus), locally known as the Julián chiví, is an important migratory species found in the forest.[1]

Bosque del Pueblo (People's Forest) is one of the 20 forest units that make up the public forest system of Puerto Rico. The 738-acres forest is located in the municipality of Adjuntas and it comprises a preserved zone which was endangered of being developed as a quarry between the years 1980 and 1995.[2] The forest is located in lands shared by the Adjuntas barrios or districts of Vegas Arriba, Vegas Abajo and Pellejas de Adjuntas. In addition to preserving the forest, the reserve is important to the preservation of the hydrological basins of the Pellejas and Viví Rivers, and many of the tributaries of the Arecibo River have their sources in the forest lands. The forest also functions as an ecological corridor between the Guilarte, Río Abajo and Toro Negro Forests.[3]

  1. ^ Berríos, Marielisa Ortiz (2012-01-12). "En las entrañas de Adjuntas un bosque para el pueblo". Atabey (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-10.
  2. ^ "Bosque del Pueblo". Casa Pueblo • Puerto Rico. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
  3. ^ Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales. "Bosque del Pueblo" (PDF). drna.pr.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-12-21.