The Manglares Route of Pacific Coast of Guatemala
GuatemalaMinistry of Culture and Sports
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Description
Formed by Manchón Guamuchal reserve and Monterrico, it is a complex of different aquatic systems that includes beaches with vegetation of dunes, thorny heath, dry forest, sweet lagoons with emergent, vegetation mainly compound for gramineous and flooded forests that constitute the area with most population of swamps in Guatemala and the highest genetic productivity in the planet.