Greater Antilles mangroves

The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.^[1]

American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) feeding in a saltwater lagoon surrounded by a mangrove forest in Cuba.
Ecoregion territory (in magenta)
Ecology
Realm	Neotropical
Biome	mangroves
Borders	List Cayman Islands dry forests Cuban cactus scrub Cuban dry forests Cuban moist forests Cuban pine forests Cuban wetlands Hispaniolan dry forests Hispaniolan moist forests Jamaican dry forests Jamaican moist forests Puerto Rican dry forests Puerto Rican moist forests
Geography
Area	10,600 km2 (4,100 sq mi)
Countries	List  Cuba  Dominican Republic  Haiti  Jamaica  United States ( Puerto Rico)
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered[1]
Protected	30.5%(2007)[2]

Geography

Mangroves are estimated to cover 5,569 km² in Cuba (or 4.8% of the country); 134 km² in Haiti; 325 km² in the Dominican Republic; and 106 km² in Jamaica.^[1]

Some ecoregion systems include the Greater Antilles mangroves, Bahamian mangroves, and Lesser Antilles mangroves within a single Bahamian-Antillean mangroves ecoregion.^[3]

Protected areas

30.5% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.^[2] These include the Zapata Swamp in Cuba,^[4] La Cahouane and Three Bays Protected Area in Haiti,^[5][6] Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic, and the Piñones State Forest^[7] and Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Puerto Rico.^[8]