Toro Negro State Forest

Toro Negro State Forest is a protected mountain forest in Puerto Rico’s Cordillera Central and the island’s highest cloud forest, spanning seven separate tracts across five municipalities. Its rugged landscape includes some of Puerto Rico’s highest peaks, among them Cerro de Punta, Cerro Jayuya, and Cerro Rosa, as well as Lake Guineo, regarded as the island’s highest lake. Once used largely for coffee cultivation, the area was acquired in the 1930s and heavily reforested with millions of seedlings before passing through federal and territorial administration. Formally opened in 1970, it is now valued for conservation, water and soil protection, trails, rivers, waterfalls, and distinctive mountain ecosystems.

Puerto Rico · United States