There’s an international campaign on to identify the new 7 wonders of nature and the sole Caribbean location to have made it to the finals of the selection process is El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico:
El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest, is located on the island of Puerto Rico. It is also the name of the second highest mountain peak in the Forest. El Yunque is the only tropical rain forest in the United States National Forest System.
Find out more about El Yunque at the U.S. Forest Service website.
Other Caribbean wonders were shortlisted, but didn’t make the finals of the New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign. These were Kaieteur Falls, Guyana, Conchi, Aruba, and Dean’s Blue Hole, the Bahamas.
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