Las Mangas

Las Mangas is the specific destination you are searching for. For a broader landscape context, the municipality of Iriona has two distinct points of reference: the Iriona Limón marine area and part of the Río Plátano Biosphere. The information below relates to the municipal or marine level and helps distinguish these natural areas from one another. If you are looking for a hotel, you can consider the place name Las Mangas and the regional landscape topics separately.

Marine wildlife in the Iriona Limón area

Iriona Limón is an area of more than 145,000 hectares that is important for wildlife conservation in the marine area of the municipalities of Iriona and Limón in the department of Colón. The area is home to diverse marine fauna; it was designated on May 16, 2022. The size figure describes the extent of the protected area, while the statement about marine fauna identifies its biological focus. Together, this information conveys both the area’s spatial scale and its conservation significance. Its marine character is crucial to understanding it: Iriona Limón refers to the marine areas of the two municipalities, not solely to a place name.

Río Plátano: shares of core and buffer zones

Another point of reference is the Río Plátano Biosphere, part of which lies within the municipality of Iriona. The municipality is credited with 56 percent of the core zone, equivalent to 117,648 hectares. For the biosphere’s buffer zones, the allocation lists a share of 13 percent, or 76,821 hectares. This describes two different zone categories, each with a percentage and an absolute area figure.

When reading the figures, it is worth keeping their respective frames of reference in mind: the 56 percent refers to the core zone, and the 13 percent to the buffer zones. The figures therefore cannot simply be compared as shares of the same area. In each case, the hectare figure complements the percentage by showing the area allocated to Iriona in the category concerned. This keeps the municipal allocation for both zones clear and distinct.

Two distinct landscape contexts

The information about the municipality of Iriona describes nature in different ways. Iriona Limón focuses on a marine area, wildlife conservation, and diverse marine fauna. The Río Plátano Biosphere concerns the municipality’s shares of core and buffer zones. The figures therefore answer different questions: the hectare figure for Iriona Limón gives the extent of this area; the figures for Río Plátano assign shares of land to specific zones. A meaningful comparison must therefore always take into account which area or zone is being discussed.

If you are interested in the regional natural setting when choosing your destination, these references offer two different points of connection: marine fauna in Iriona Limón and the distribution of land within the Río Plátano Biosphere.

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