Mata de Plátano Field Station

Mata de Plátano Field Station in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, spans 130 acres of largely undisturbed rainforest in the island’s Northern Karst region, within the barrios of Dominguito and Tanamá. Managed by the Bayamón campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, it serves as both a nature reserve and a research center for biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. Its hilly karst terrain includes mogotes, sinkholes, and caves, especially Culebrones Cave, which shelters 13 bat species and provides an important setting for observing ecological interactions between bats and the Puerto Rican boa, Chilabothrus inornatus.

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