Monte Cristi National Park

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Monte Cristi National Park (Parque National Monte Cristi) is a national park on the Caribbean Island of Hispanola that extends from the borders of Haiti to Punta Rucia in the Dominican Republic and covers an area of 550 km². Its contains coastal lagoons, beaches, mangrove swamps, a 237 m (777 ft) limestone mesa from which can be seen off shore keys and forested slopes of the mesa's northern side.^[1]

The area is very dry, receiving just over two inches of rain per year. The huge mesa provides a habitat for an indigenous plant species called sabia montecristini as well as several reptile species. There are no marked paths in the park.^[2]

[edit] See also

• List of national parks of Dominican Republic
• Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck

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[edit] External links

• Monte Cristi Shipwreck Project - The 2001 Excavation
• The Rhenish Stoneware from the Monte Cristi Shipwreck, Dominican Republic