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Los Tres Picachos State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Los Tres Picachos) is one of the 20 forests that make up the public forest system of Puerto Rico.The forest is located in the Central Mountain Range or Cordillera Central, along the Los Tres Picachos mountain ridge, one of the island's highest mountains, named after the distinctive three peaks of the highest mountain in the forest.
Example of a state forest landmark sign, this one for the Cueva Ventana in Guajataca.. Puerto Rico state forests (Spanish: Bosques estatales de Puerto Rico), sometimes referred to as Puerto Rico Commonwealth forests in English, [1] [2] are protected forest reserves managed by the government of Puerto Rico, particularly by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.
Tres Picachos (Spanish for Three Little Peaks) is one of the highest peaks in Puerto Rico at 968 meters (3,176 ft). It is located on the border between the municipalities of Ciales and Jayuya [1] in the central part of the island, and is part of the Cordillera Central. [2] [3]
The Sierra de Luquillo, which crosses Gurabo, Carolina, Juncos, Canóvanas, Las Piedras, Rio Grande, Luquillo, Naguabo, Fajardo, and Ceiba, is often included as a subrange of the Cordillera Central, [1] however it is separated from it by the Loíza hydrological basin in the Caguas Valley and numerous other geographical features such as the San ...
Entrance sign to El Yunque National Forest.. The protected areas of Puerto Rico include an array of natural areas in the archipelago of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, managed by a number of agencies and entities belonging to both federal and commonwealth government bodies.
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View of Mt Britton Los Tres Picachos, a smaller peak. The peak itself, standing at 1,080 metres (3,540 feet) above sea level is not the highest in Puerto Rico or even the Sierra de Luquillo range where it is located.
View from the Three Peaks (Tres Picachos) in El Yunque. The area of the El Yunque National Forest has been notable since the pre-Columbian era. The forest today is home to several archaeological sites related to the indigenous Taínos, such as the Río Blanco petroglyphs, although no evidence of permanent settlement has been found in the area, which suggests that it was possibly avoided and ...