Monito Island (English: Little Mona, Spanish: Islote Monito) is an uninhabited island about 3.1 mi (5.0 km) northwest of the much larger Mona Island. Monito is the masculine diminutive form of Mona in Spanish, which also translates to little monkey in Spanish. It is one of three islands in the Mona Passage, and part of the Isla de Mona e Islote Monito barrio, a subdivision of the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
It is 46.43 mi (74.72 km) from the Puerto Rican mainland, and 35.73 mi (57.50 km) from the island of Hispaniola (the coast of the Dominican Republic).
MonitoIsland (English: Little Mona, Spanish: Islote Monito) is an uninhabited island about 3.1 mi (5.0 km) northwest of the much larger Mona Island. Monito...
the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the others being MonitoIsland and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles (11 km by 7 km), and...
The monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides), or colocolo opossum, is a diminutive species of marsupial native only to south-western South America (Argentina...
Mona and MonitoIslands Nature Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Natural Islas Mona y Monito) consists of two islands, Mona and Monito, in the Mona Passage off...
The Monito skink (Spondylurus monitae) is a species of skink found on MonitoIsland in Puerto Rico. Hedges, B. (2013). "Spondylurus monitae". IUCN Red...
The Monito gecko (Sphaerodactylus micropithecus) is a lizard, a species of gecko endemic to the island of Monito, in the archipelago of Puerto Rico. The...
comprising the archipelago of Puerto Rico (except for Mona, Monito and Desecheo) and the Virgin Islands (except for St. Croix)—became separated. The Puerto Rican...
kilometers) northwest of Mona Island is the much smaller MonitoIsland. Thirty miles (Fifty kilometers) northeast of Mona Island and much closer (13 mi/21...
National Wildlife Refuges, and in the Caja de Muertos and Mona and MonitoIslands Nature Reserves. Examples of endemic species found in this ecoregion...
Spanish–American War. The islands, along with the islands of Puerto Rico, Mona, Monito, Desecheo, and other smaller islands adjacent to the island of Puerto Rico...
y Monito: una evaluación de sus recursos naturales e históricos (in English and Spanish). San Juan: IUCN. "Reserva Natural Islas de Mona y Monito". DRNA...
between birds on Boatswain Bird Island off Ascension and those from MonitoIsland off Puerto Rico. S. d. melanops Hartlaub, 1859 Breeds in the western...
Wildlife Refuges in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Navassa Island of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. The NWR complex also manages the reintroduction...
Deadman's Chest or Coffin Island) is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce. The island and its surrounding...
population is estimated at 59,000 on Mona Island, 148 individuals on MonitoIsland, and only 9 on Desecheo Island. It grows on in scrubland on exposed limestone...
along with the islands of Mona and Monito, Desecheo is not geologically related to the main island. It is believed that the island has been isolated...
on the adjacent off-shore islands of Culebra, Mona, Monito, Desecheo, Caja de Muertos, Cayo Santiago and most of the island of Vieques. Dry forests along...
avoided and most likely considered sacred. The Spanish began the conquest the island of Borinquen in 1493, and gold was soon found in the Fajardo and Blanco...
Area Cabo Rojo Mona and MonitoIslands Puerto Mosquito Río Abajo State Forest Icacos La Mina Mameyes El Toro Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge...
provisions before continuing their journey. They landed on Mona and MonitoIslands on April 7 and left on April 9, the last stop before the mainland. After...
effect on hawksbill turtle growth rates on feeding grounds at Mona and MonitoIslands, Puerto Rico". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 234: 301–309. Bibcode:2002MEPS...
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and Woodburnodontidae, and is represented by only one extant species, the monito del monte, and a number of extinct species known from fossils in South America...
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