Cotubanamá National Park (also known as East National Park) is part of the National System of Protected Areas of the Dominican Republic; it is located in the furthest limit of the Southeast of the country, between the provinces of La Romana and La Altagracia. Its territorial scope constitutes a peninsula with a trapezoidal shape, the major base would be represented by an imaginary line of 25 km that connect the towns of Boca de Yuma and Bayahibe, its smaller base on the south coast is 11 km long. The protected area also the park includes the Saona Island and the maritime zone that surrounds the entire protected territory. Through Law 519-14 of October 2014, the park changed its name in honour of the cacique Cotubanamá who governed the area to which the park belongs and confronted the Spaniards in the conquest.
The National Park covers a total area of 791.9 km2, (including the 110m2 of the Saona Island and the maritime zone). There are two villages on the island: Mano Juan and Catuano, the first one is the more active and has the largest population. Its resources includes a wide range of exuberant forest masses, coastal areas, beaches, mangroves, inlets, rock shelters, cliffs, wetlands and valuable enclaves of historical and cultural resources. The interiors of the caverns and shelters serve to protect the vestiges of the culture of the former inhabitants of the island before the arrival of the Spanish represents these last ones. Also several Taino ceremonial plazas of great importance and the only sinkhole of Aleta were found.
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