Bayahibe is located just east of Casa de Campo , after de Chavon River is reached over a hilly drive with incredible views through the Boca de Chavon Valley .

The town itself is more or less a small fishing village surrounded by a few large vacation resorts.
Bayahibe provides one of the entrances to the Parque Nacional del Este and Isla Soana . The park consists of limestone terraces formed a million years ago and caves containing pre-Columbian pictographs and rock carvings of the Tainos.
One part of the park's coast is known for excellent diving because of its amazing coral formation diversity. The southeastern tip of the park, Calderas Bay, is where you will find saltwater lagoons with mangrove swamps and dozens of different types of birdlife.

Bayahibe is also where you can hire a boat for a 45 minute ride over to Isla Saona , a 25 by 5 km sized island. This picturesque island is a popular excursion due to its beautiful white sand beach, tall coconut palms and great snorkeling, which can sometimes include peeks of manatees and bottlenose dolphins.

NATIONAL PARK OF THE EAST:
it is in the domestic Southwest end, forming for a trapezoidal peninsula. Their bigger base is of 25 kilometers it unites the towns Mouth of Yuma and Bayahibe. the park also includes the Island Saona, located to the South of the peninsula, and separated from this for the Channel of Catuano.

The island presents a form lengthened with an extension of 110 km2. The mainland is built by a surface solevantada. It evidences of this several stepped terraces that formed approximately a million years ago for the action of the waves of the Caribbean Sea. In general the territory is flat, formed by rocks of origin marine, small hole and space of certain organic matter.

Some of the holes load water of the precipitation or they contain springs with brackish water. Rivers streams don't exist, these as consequence of the high porosities of the underground of marine origin. The temperature averages yearly it is of 26.5 C, the precipitation average is of annual 1,300 millimeter. Inside the park they are distinguished three areas of life, the transition forest among both previous.

Abundant species in the areas are the guayiga (Zamia debilis), Copey (rosy Clusia), Almacigo (Bursea simaruba), Bayahonda (Prosopis julifrora), Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), CRI CRI (Buchenavia captain), Vera (Guaiacum santum), Coconut (Coconuts nucifera) beach Grape (coccoloba uvifera). One of the reservations faunistica constitutes but important domestic.

They have registered 112 species of birds, of which 8 are endemic of the island and 11 endemic of Caribbean, like it is the case of the dove Crown (Columba leucocephala), declared species in extinction danger. Among the characteristic avifauna of the National Park of the East we can mention the Parrot (Amazon ventralis), common Owl (Tyto dawn), Paloma ash (Columba inornata), etc. The fauna of native mammals of the Hispaniola is reduced. However most of they are represented the Solenodonte (Solenodon paradoxus) and the Jutía (Plagiodontia aedium).
Between the numerous species of amphibians and reptiles as they are the largatos and the snakes, Two species of marine turtles and the Iguanas Rhinoceros should be pointed out (Cyclura bugle). inside the park some series of caverns exist, mainly in the sector West of Guaraguao, which it contains important pictografías and petroglifos.

This sector near bayahibe and the island Saona with its beaches of white sands is the points but frequented by visitors. The territory that today is National Park of the This was visited by Christopher Columbus During their second trip, after trying to avoid a tempest. It was one of people that accompanied him, the Savones Michelle of Cuneo that I detect the Island Saona. In honor of this Savones he/she was put Saona to the Island on their indigenous behalf it was Adamanay.

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