{"id":1428,"date":"2017-12-11T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismo.cooperativacarmelita.org\/circuito-carmelita-mirador\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:42:20","slug":"puerto-arturo-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/puerto-arturo-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Mayan jungle, near Carmelita -the last community north of Pet\u00e9n-, there is a wildlife sanctuary, where scientists can study birds and wildlife from this region.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong> Puerto Arturo Wildlife Refuge<\/strong> is a sanctuary that combines the scenic beauty of the lagoons with the majesty of the jungle, housing a vast range of wild animals, and is home to thousands of birds -of which some 200 species have been counted- howler monkeys, jaguars, crocodiles, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The flora of the refuges includes xate palms and chicozapote trees, and the site remains relatively virgin thanks to the conservation efforts of the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jungle and freshwater wetlands of the <strong>Puerto Arturo<\/strong> wildlife refuge are home to thousands of resident and migratory birds, as well as a variety of mammals and reptiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2682,"parent":0,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-circuito.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1428","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}