Wildlife· Culebra· Virgin Islands (BVI, USVI and Spanish Virgins)
Culebra National Wildlife Refuge
18° 19.9′ N · 65° 18.4′ W
One of the oldest refuges in the US system (1909), covering about a quarter of the archipelago: the Flamenco peninsula, Mount Resaca, Culebrita, Luis Peña and twenty-odd cays, protecting the biggest seabird colonies in the Puerto Rico archipelago and nesting sea turtles.
Practical
Position: OpenStreetMap refuge relation centroid (relation 3644701). FWS: about 1,510 acres including 21 offshore cays; public areas and trails open daily 6 am to 6 pm; office at Carr. 250 Km 3.5, Culebra; phone (305) 394-2028; email caribbeanisland@fws.gov. Wikipedia: more than 50,000 seabirds of 13 species breed each year; the largest sooty tern colony in the archipelago is on the Flamenco peninsula; Luis Peña is one of three key white-tailed tropicbird sites in Puerto Rico; leatherback and hawksbill turtles nest on refuge beaches. Cayo Norte is private and excluded. Respect closures around nesting colonies and unexploded ordnance areas.
Best for
Seabirds, turtles and protected cays
Nearby
- Flamenco Bay Anchorage0.5 NM away
- Flamenco Beach0.6 NM away
- Winter north swell (Flamenco Bay)0.6 NM away
- Flamenco Beach Sherman Tanks0.9 NM away
- Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport (Culebra)1.1 NM away
- Culebra CBP Clearance (Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport)1.1 NM away
- Mount Resaca Trail1.1 NM away
- Tamarindo Beach1.1 NM away