Overview
Parguera is a barrio in the municipality of Lajas, Puerto Rico with a population of 2,082 in 2010.[3]. The name Parguera is derived from Pargo, a fish from the family of Lutjanus campechanus, also known as red snapper.
Description
La Parguera Nature Reserve (Eastern Segment) is named after the southwestern coastal town in which it is located, on Puerto Rico’s South Region. It protects a total of 1,616.37 acres within the Costa and Parguera Wards of the municipality of Lajas and is considered one of the most important marine tropical areas in the Caribbean.
The reserve is recognized for the exceptional value of its marine resources, which include two bioluminescent bays (Bahía Fosforescente and Monsio José), a coastal mangrove fringe with several small lagoons, mangrove islands associated with coral reefs, seagrass beds, and an extensive coral reef ecosystem. Such attributes, along with improvements to the area’s accesibility, have transformed La Parguera from a mostly underdeveloped and quiet fishing village established in the mid 1940s, to one of the main tourism and recreational destinations in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico.
La Parguera, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
URL:
http://www.paralanaturaleza.org/en/la-parguera-eng/