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Los Haitises National Park is a national park located on the remote northeast coast of the Dominican Republic. It is a protected virgin forest with little road access. The number of tourists allowed is limited, but since 2000 it has been a relatively popular destination for ecotourism using ecological guides from Sabana de La Mar. ''Haiti'' (singular) means highland or mountain range in the Taíno language, although the elevation of the park's hills ranges from . There is a multitude of caverns created by water erosion. Native Americans adorned these caverns with pictographs and petroglyphs. The culture or cultures which created these artworks remain unidentified, some of them possibly predating the Taínos.〔 For photos of the rock paintings, see Lopez Belando, Adolfo, (El arte rupestre en el Parque Nacional Los Haitises ) ''Rupestreweb. Arte rupestre en América Latina'', an online journal.〕 The park was created by Law 409 enacted June 3, 1976. It was preceded by a Reserva Forestal (Forest Reserve) called Zona Vedada de Los Haitises (Los Haitises Prohibited Zone), created by Law 244. In 1996, it area was expanded from by Decree 233. Its boundary, which has been redrawn on several occasions, is uncertain. The bulk of the park is located in the municipality of Sabana de la Mar, province of Hato Mayor, while the remainder lies in the provinces of Monte Plata and Samaná. Sabana de la Mar is the site of a visitors' center.〔 (Los Haitises page ) at the Web site of the Secretaría de Estado de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de la República Dominicana (Secretariat of State of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic)〕 Despite advanced deforestation, the precipitation is still considerable, ranging from annually. The park is near the top rank in both annual total rainfall and annual number of rainy days among sites in the Dominican Republic. == Geology == The area was formed during the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period. Geomorphologically, it is a platform karst〔Milanović, Petar T. 2004. (''Water resources engineering in karst'', p. 4 ) (Google Books limited preview)〕 with dense clusters of conical hills of nearly uniform height () in between which there are many sinkholes. The maximum dimensions of this platform karst block are east to west (from Sabana de la Mar to Cevicos) by north to south (from the Samaná Bay to Bayaguana). The hills of the interior have the same origin as the islets of the Samaná Bay. There is a multitude of caverns. Hydrographically, Los Haitises spans portions of two basins: in its western half, the lower basin of the Yuna River; and in its eastern half, a zone spanning Miches and Sabana de la Mar. The Yuna drains through two mouths: its own and that of the Barracote River. In addition to these two rivers, the park is traversed by the Payabo River, the Los Cocos River, the Naranjo River, and numerous natural channels〔''caños'' in Caribbean Spanish dialect; see (''Diccionario de la Real Academia Española )〕 including the Cabirma, Estero, and Prieto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Haitises National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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