Introduction
· More than a 10% from the state's surface is protected as reserves and National Parks.
· High middle and low jungles, fog jungles, pine, mangrove and oak forests are the most
representative ecosystems in the protected areas.
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve
The biggest evergreen rainforest area in extent and fauna diversity in Mexico is Montes Azules
(Blue Mountains) placed in Chiapas' east mountains, also known as the Lacandon
rainforest.
Created in 1978 and with an extent of 331 thousand 200 hectares, this reserve presents the most
amazing landscapes in fauna and flora means.
Selva El Ocote Reserve
Outlined by the Sierra de las Veinte Casas (Twenty Houses' Sierra) lime mountain range has almost 50 thousand hectares and was created in 1982 for the preservation of state's north region's Flora and Fauna.
La Encrucijada (The Crossroads) Reserve
Located along the Pacific seashore, at the municipality of Mazatan, Huixtla, Villa Comaltitlan, Acapetahua, Mapastepec and Pijijiapan, stated Protected Zone in June 6th 1995. With 144,868 hectares surface sharing communal, particular and national lands. Outstands due to a lot of mangroves in the shore zones well as canals and flooded or seasonal flooded lands.
La Sepultura (The Grave) Reserve
One of the state's most important natural reserve is the La Sepultura (The Grave) Ecologic Reserve, declared by the Federal Government June 5th 1995, and the region, with the same name, as a subject to ecological conservation in Chiapas State.
El Triunfo (The Triumph) Reserve
This biosphere reserve keeps the last mountain fog jungles habitat of the amazing quetzal, and other
bird like the pavon, one of Chiapas' icons, because it lives only in the Chiapas' Sierra Madre,
the toucan and hundreds of other animal species more; the area also has middle perenfoil jungle vegetation,
low caducifoil jungle and oak liquidambar and pine forests.
El Triunfo is almost unreal scenery of ever dripping leaves due to the clouds so near to the ground. Inside
you walk through path with thick fog and the extraordinary beauty of arboreal fern.
