The Zapata Swamp (Spanish: Ciénaga de Zapata, Spanish pronunciation:[ˈsjenaɣaðesaˈpata]) is located on the Zapata Peninsula in the southern Matanzas Province of Cuba, in the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata. It is located less than 150 kilometres (93 mi) southeast of Havana.[11]
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The ZapataSwamp (Spanish: Ciénaga de Zapata, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsjenaɣa ðe saˈpata]) is located on the Zapata Peninsula in the southern Matanzas...
in the ZapataSwamp near Santo Tomás, in the southern Matanzas Province of Cuba. The swamp holds one other bird found nowhere else, the Zapata wren, and...
spread across the Caribbean, its range has dwindled to including only the ZapataSwamp and Isla de la Juventud, due to hunting by humans. Captive breeding projects...
and western parts of the island. It was mainly reported from the vast ZapataSwamp, where it inhabited open terrain with scattered trees. The Cuban macaw...
The Zapata wren (Ferminia cerverai) is a medium-sized grayish-brown bird that lives in dense shrubs of the ZapataSwamp, Cuba. It is the only member of...
in Cuba's mogote areas in Pinar del Río Province and more commonly in ZapataSwamp (Matanzas Province) and in eastern Cuba, with reference localities in...
the ZapataSwamp, located in southern Matanzas Province, and extending west along the Gulf of Batabanó into southern Havana Province. ZapataSwamp has...
mangroves and marshes can be found in the coastal area. The largest is the ZapataSwamp, with over 4,520 km2 (1,750 sq mi). A recent global remote sensing analysis...
The Zapata sparrow (Torreornis inexpectata) is a medium-sized grey and yellow bird that lives in the grasslands of the ZapataSwamp and elsewhere on the...
only in the ZapataSwamp and Isle of Youth of Cuba It is a small but extremely aggressive species of crocodile that prefers freshwater swamps. The coloration...
last four each are home to more than 70. The two largest, one in the ZapataSwamp (c. 120 cranes) and another on Isla de la Juventud (c. 170 cranes), are...
ecoregion. 30.5% of the ecoregion is in protected areas. These include the ZapataSwamp in Cuba, La Cahouane and Three Bays Protected Area in Haiti, Los Haitises...
in the Cancún area of Mexico. The crocodile likely originated in the ZapataSwamp of Cuba (the only place where these wild hybrids exist, and where the...
On the western side of the bay, coral reefs border the main ZapataSwamp, part of the Zapata Peninsula. On the eastern side, beaches border margins of firm...
mongooses and black rats. The discovery of tracks and droppings in the ZapataSwamp gives hopes that this species has survived. It was initially described...
section of the country. By the next day, Elsa had made landfall near the ZapataSwamp in west-central Cuba. In Cienfuegos, residents reported very heavy rainfall...
captivity by him had length of 4.57 m (15.0 ft) was collected at the ZapataSwamp, Matanzas Province. Rodríguez (1876) commented that the largest specimens...
capturing of prisoners, some of whom were former schoolmates, in the ZapataSwamp. Coro died on 8 January 2023, at the age of 80. Vela, Hatzel (3 February...
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