Flora and Fauna



Plants in the reserve

There exists around 1000 species of native plants (click for pictures)  with a high degree of endemic species in the protected ecosystems of the crater and its surroundings. The reserve has different classes of mountain cloud forest vegetation (click for map) with many different plants like  grasses including mountain bamboo, trees and shrubs, laden with  bromeliads (click for photos) and other epiphytes, ferns, mosses and lichens, many different families of flowers (click for display) including some 60 known species of orchids (click for pictures), among them epidendrums, pleurothallis and oncidiums.

Apart from the native flora, at the bottom of the crater, where people live and farming pre-dominates exit also many introduced plants, like the field crops, mostly corn and beans, eucalyptus trees, pine trees, fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental flowers and so on.


Some of the native species with common and scientific name

 

Animals in the reserve

There are great numbers of birds (for more info), some non-poisonous snakes and other reptiles, butterflies and other insects and mammals.


Mammals found in the region

Most of the mammals living in the crater and below are introduced species by man for economic use. Almost on every farm you find cattle, pigs, donkeys, horses, dogs and chicken (click for pictures). Larger wild animals were or still are hunted for  protection of the domestic animals, as in the case of the fox and skunk, and others for meat, like the deer and rabbits. So you still find those animals listed below but not in any great numbers.


 

A diverse fauna and flora protected for future generations.

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