About 60% of the territory is mountainous, apart from the coasts. Puerto Rico offers Varity of amazing rain forest, deserts, beaches, caves, oceans and rivers. Puerto Rico has three major Geographic regions: Mountainous interior, coastal lowlands, and the karst area.
Mountainous interior is formed by a chain of central mountains generally known as Cordillera Central, The largest mountains are Cerro La Punta (1,338 m) in Jayuya; Rosas (1,267 m) found between Jayuya and Ciales, Guilarte (1,205 m) in Adjuntas, Tres Picachos (1,204 m) in Jayuya, and Maravilla (1,182m) in Ponce. Another mountain chain in northeast is the Sierra de Luquillo.
The second important geographic region coastal lowlands, extend 8 to 12 miles inward in north, and 2 to 8 miles in the south. A series of smaller valleys was originally formed by the erosion of interior mountains, which lie perpendicular near the …show more content…
This area consists of rough limestone dissolved in water throughout geological ages. This limestone region is an extremely attractive zone of extensive mogotes or haystack hills, sinkholes, caves, limestone cliffs, and other karst features. The karst belt extends from Aguadilla, in the west, to a minor haystack hills formation in Loíza, just east of San Juan.
Terrain
The soils of Puerto Rico there are several types of sorting. Five usual types of soils can be classified based on the U.S soil conservation they are humid coastal plains, semiarid coastal plains, humid uplands, semiarid uplands, and humid upland valleys. The scientists of university of Puerto Rico categorise the island soil into one more classification as lowlands, alluvium, coastal plains, alluvium in terraces, upland dark, and upland reddish-purple. Tropical countries produce High biomass products like sugarcane, bananas, tobacco and coffee, in spite of tropical soils being considered as not fit for agriculture with soil having less fertility, and
Mountainous interior is formed by a chain of central mountains generally known as Cordillera Central, The largest mountains are Cerro La Punta (1,338 m) in Jayuya; Rosas (1,267 m) found between Jayuya and Ciales, Guilarte (1,205 m) in Adjuntas, Tres Picachos (1,204 m) in Jayuya, and Maravilla (1,182m) in Ponce. Another mountain chain in northeast is the Sierra de Luquillo.
The second important geographic region coastal lowlands, extend 8 to 12 miles inward in north, and 2 to 8 miles in the south. A series of smaller valleys was originally formed by the erosion of interior mountains, which lie perpendicular near the …show more content…
This area consists of rough limestone dissolved in water throughout geological ages. This limestone region is an extremely attractive zone of extensive mogotes or haystack hills, sinkholes, caves, limestone cliffs, and other karst features. The karst belt extends from Aguadilla, in the west, to a minor haystack hills formation in Loíza, just east of San Juan.
Terrain
The soils of Puerto Rico there are several types of sorting. Five usual types of soils can be classified based on the U.S soil conservation they are humid coastal plains, semiarid coastal plains, humid uplands, semiarid uplands, and humid upland valleys. The scientists of university of Puerto Rico categorise the island soil into one more classification as lowlands, alluvium, coastal plains, alluvium in terraces, upland dark, and upland reddish-purple. Tropical countries produce High biomass products like sugarcane, bananas, tobacco and coffee, in spite of tropical soils being considered as not fit for agriculture with soil having less fertility, and