Interpretive Centre Las Salinas De Cabo Rojo
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

The Interpretive Centre Las Salinas is located in the Highway 301 km. 11 in Cabo Rojo. It offers tours through the valuable ecosystem that surrounds them, and provides guidance to its visitors about birds, plants and trees of the area. Also you can run bicycle around all this area. It is open from Thursday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm and Sundays and holidays from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. Outside the interpretive centre is the "Mariano Rodríguez Flores" observation tower. From there you can see a panoramic view of Las Salinas de Cabo Rojo, Los Morrillos lighthouse and beautiful beaches. Las Salinas is an area of lagoons, salt flats, dry forest and mangrove swamps. It is part of the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge. The extraction of salt in the area began approximately 700 BC. In 1508 began its commercial exploitation, making it the first puertorrican industry and one of the first in America. This area is ecologically important for thousands of migratory birds.