{"id":1479,"date":"2017-12-13T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turismocooperativacarmelita.com\/carmelita-mirador-circuit\/el-reino-kan\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:57:13","slug":"mammals-and-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/puerto-arturo-wildlife-refuge\/mammals-and-reptiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammals and Reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Puerto Arturo Wildlife Refuge is located in Carmelita, San Andr\u00e9s, Pet\u00e9n, and is part of the Maya Biosphere Reserve &#8211; the largest protected tropical forest in North America.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 1em; text-align: center;\">In terms of biodiversity, the Maya Biosphere Reserve has registered at least 3,000 species of plants, 142 species of mammals, 460 species of birds -among which some 200 have been registered in Puerto Arturo-, 102 species of reptiles and 29 species of amphibians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The jungle of the Puerto Arturo Wildlife Refuge is home to the emblematic <strong>jaguar<\/strong> (Pantera onca), its habitat is made up of a great diversity of fauna: <strong>Tapirs<\/strong> (Tapirus baidii), <strong>pumas<\/strong> (puma concolor), ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), margays (Leopardus wiedii) yaguarundis (puma yaguoaroundii), <strong>white-tailed deer<\/strong> (Odocoileus virginianus), tairas> (Eira barbara ), <strong>wild boars <\/strong> (Tayassu pecari), collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu), wild kids (American mazama), <strong>anteaters<\/strong> (Mexican tamandua), followed by great diversity of other wildlife mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Puerto Arturo is home to a great diversity of amphibians, reptiles, and fish; among them the <strong>crocodile<\/strong> moreleti (Crocodylus moreletii), the <strong>white turtle<\/strong> (Dermatemys mawii), and the <strong>white fish<\/strong> (Petenia splendida).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jungle of the Puerto Arturo Wildlife Refuge is home to the emblematic jaguar, followed by a great diversity of other wildlife mammals, as well as a great diversity of amphibians, reptiles, and fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2949,"parent":1428,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1479","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1479\/revisions\/3007"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpuertoarturo.com.gt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}