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La Tigra National Park
La Tigra National Park
La Tigra National Park, situated just 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tegucigalpa, provides the capitalinos (residents of the capital) with a wondrous rainforest mountain retreat. Small brooks and waterfalls flow through giant ferns amidst lush pine, oak, and liquidambar forests draped in carpets of moss, orchids, and bromeliads where you can hike for miles on peaceful, well-maintained trails. Numerous bird species, including toucans and quetzals, inhabit the park, as do ocelots, squirrels, and other small mammals and dozens of butterfly species. The best time of day for bird-watching is in the morning, but even if you get there in the afternoon, you will enjoy the sweet flute-like song of the shy jilguero (finch) that inhabits the forests along the trails. If you stay the night, you might be fortunate enough to see an ocelot; a park ranger in Jutiapa recently told me that one was wandering around the parking lot at dusk. Although much of the park’s primary forests – especially near El Rosario – were destroyed during the mining era, the forest has regenerated over the last 50 years and is a fun place to explore.
Dozens of springs and streams in the park provide nearly 40% of the capital’s water supply and, because of that, the park was the first area in Honduras to receive status as a national park in 1980, with a core zone of 18,708 acres. An eight-day documentary, Honduras Indómita, was filmed in La Tigra in 2002. You can visit the project’s website in Spanish at www.hondurasindomita.com for excerpts and photos. The website was the recipient of the prestigious international Golden Web Award 2002-2003.
More information about the park is available at the offices of the foundation that manages the park, Fundación Amigos de la Tigra (AMITIGRA), with administrative offices at: Edificio Italia, Apartamento #6, Col. Palmira, Tegucigalpa.
Last updated May 29, 2011
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