Jeannette Kawas National Park

Jeannette Kawas National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Punta Sal peninsula beach near entrance to the Sendero Los Curumos
Location of Jeannette Kawas in Honduras
Location	Honduras
Coordinates	15°49′06″N 87°22′03″W / 15.81833°N 87.36750°W / 15.81833; -87.36750[1]
Area	781.62 km2 (301.79 sq mi)[1]
Established	4 November 1994[2][better source needed]
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Parque Nacional Jeannette Kawas
Designated	28 March 1995
Reference no.	722[3]

Jeannette Kawas National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Jeannette Kawas) is a national park located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras, established on 4 November 1994. The park covers an area of 781.62 square kilometres and has an altitude of 900 metres.^[1] The park was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat).

The park was established on 4 November 1994, originally named Punta Sal National Park.^[2] It was created and is managed by the PROLANSATE foundation (protection of Lancetilla, Punta Sal and Texiguat).^{[citation needed]}

Its name was changed to Jeannette Kawas National Park in honor of Jeannette Kawas, an environmental activist and PROLANSATE president who was murdered on February 6, 1995 for her work trying to keep the palm plantations out of the park.^{[citation needed]}

Jeannette Kawas National Park is part of the Ramsar Convention List of Wetlands of International Importance and was designated as such on March 28, 1995.^{[citation needed]}

The park is located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras.^[2] Located at 15º51'N 087º40'W between longitudes 87º29' and 87º52' west and latitudes 15º42' and 16º00'. It covers an area of 781.62 square kilometres and has an altitude of 900 metres.^[1]

The park is made up of varied marine, terrestrial and wetlands ecosystems with a large number of species. These ecosystems include beaches, tropical forests, inundated forests, mangrove forests, lagoons and rivers.^{[citation needed]}

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• Keel-billed motmot
• Turquoise-browed motmot
• Green-breasted mountain-gem
• Lovely cotinga
• Resplendent quetzal
• Bushy-crested jay
• Blue-crowned chlorophonia
• Lesser ground-cuckoo

• West Indian manatee
• Common dolphin
• White-headed capuchin
• Howler monkey

• Tarpon
• Centropomus
• Gafftopsail catfish

• American crocodile
• Sea turtle, such as green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, hawksbill turtle and the loggerhead turtle
• Green iguana
• Red-tailed boa
• Mexican burrowing snake

• Caribbean hermit crab
• Golden silk orb-weaver

• Acalypha skutchii
• Cappatis truerchkhemii
• Columnea tuerckheimii
• Cordia truncatifolia
• Ormosia macrocalyx
• Phyllanthus elsiae
• Rinorea hummelii
• Salacia impressifolia
• Sida antillensis
• Sida troyana

• La Tigra National park, Honduras first national park
• Honduras portal

• PARQUE NACIONAL PUNTA SAL Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Ramsar Information Sheet (pdf), Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS), 7 September 2011, 25 pages (in Spanish)

• Birds of Honduras.com Robert Gallardo, n.d.
• profile of Jeanette Kawas National Park Carla Picinich, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, n.d., retrieved 9 March 2016
• Interactive Map of Park Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine INFOHN.COM (Info de Honduras S.A.) 2006
• Fundacion PROLANSATE web site (in Spanish) n.d.

• Ramsar sites by countries