Map: | Ecoregion NT1410.png |
Biogeographic Realm: | Neotropical |
Biome: | mangroves |
Border: | Cayman Islands dry forests |
Border1: | Cuban cactus scrub |
Border2: | Cuban dry forests |
Border3: | Cuban moist forests |
Border4: | Cuban pine forests |
Border5: | Cuban wetlands |
Border6: | Hispaniolan dry forests |
Border7: | Hispaniolan moist forests |
Border8: | Jamaican dry forests |
Border9: | Jamaican moist forests |
Border10: | Puerto Rican dry forests |
Border11: | Puerto Rican moist forests |
Country4: | |
Area: | 10600 |
Conservation: | Critical/endangered |
Protected: | 30.5 |
Protected Ref: | (2007)[1] |
The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
Mangroves are estimated to cover 5,569 km in Cuba (or 4.8% of the country); 134 km in Haiti; 325 km in the Dominican Republic; and 106 km in Jamaica.
Some ecoregion systems include the Greater Antilles mangroves, Bahamian mangroves, and Lesser Antilles mangroves within a single Bahamian-Antillean mangroves ecoregion.[2]
30.5% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.[1] These include the Zapata Swamp in Cuba,[3] La Cahouane and Three Bays Protected Area in Haiti,[4] [5] Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic, and the Piñones State Forest[6] and Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Puerto Rico.[7]