The Cerro Alamikamba nature reserve is located in the autonomous region of the North Caribbean Coast, in the municipality of Prinzapolka. The area was declared through Decree 42-91, published in La Gaceta on November 4, 1991.
It has an area of 2,100 hectares, which includes savannas of Pinus caribaea of high genetic value where one of the best provenances of this species is obtained, which can reach heights greater than 30 meters approximately and in well-drained sites they tend to be denser and more developed.
It presents ecosystems of the humid tropical evergreen seasonal broadleaf riberine and swampy forest dominated by palms; there is an open estuary and a freshwater alluvial coastal lagoon; where it is possible to observe the presence of silty mangroves and a sparsely vegetated tropical beach; There are also tall graminoid flooded savannas with broadleaf trees and a significant presence of palms, short graminoid flooded savannas, and swampy transitional coastal vegetation.
