CERRO SECO BIOLOGICAL RESERVE
Cerro Seco Reserve is the protector forest of the ecocity (Bahía de Caráquez).It is located at the foot of the city, it has a native cabin for tourist reception. It offers the possibility to hike in the tropical dry forest, which it is formed by large varieties of endemic flora and fauna of the Tumbesian dry tropical forest (extended between Ecuador and Peru).
A hike early in the morning, will allow you to watch and to hear dozens of birds as the Ecuadorian picolet (Picumus sclateri), the pacific hornero (Furnarius cinnamomeus), the long tailed mockingbird (Mimus longicaudatus), the sooty-crowned flycatcher (Myiarchus phaeocephalus), Baird´s flycatcher (Myiondinastes chrysocephalus) among the most common birds.
With the help of a native guide you hike the path of the reserve to  the highest point of the forest called “Condor Mirador†where it is 120 meters above sea level. Here you will be able to take the best photos of the ecocity and its surroundings.
The most interesting part of the tour is to see and learn about the marvelous tree well known as Ceibo or kapok, a dry tropical tree which shape resembles the shape of a women. You will also learn about the natural glue of the dry forest called muyuyo, the natural repellent known as Palo Santo and a variety of ethno botanical and medicinal uses of plants of the dry forest.
The hiking experience takes approximately 3 hours. At the end of the tour, we will do a safari in our jeep to take a look of the surrounding dry forest of Bahia, where we will watch a specie of bird known locally as lincheros or colembas and globally as caciques (Cacicus cela). This specie is a bird that nest in colony in the trees of ceibos.
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El momoto o culebrero un ave muy tÃpica del bosque seco
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In the midle of the dry tropical forest |
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Una colemba muy cercana a su nido ubicado bajo un ceibo |
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Taraba major. El chororo, un ave del bosque seco. |
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Rhodospingus cruentus. El pinzón del bosque seco |
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Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Amazilia amazilia. |
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| Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Cacicus cela |
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| Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Glaucidium peruvianus |
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| Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Hornero del PacÃfico |
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| Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Se observan áreas donde crecen cactus (Cactus cereus) |
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El cabezón unicolor (Platypsaris minor) |
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| (Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias.) Pitangus sulphuratus |
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Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. El periquito del pacÃfico |
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| (Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias.) Sturnella bellicosa |
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Foto: Geovanny Zaccarias. Bosques de ceibos. |
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A ecotourist watching nestles of caciques |
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La cabaña de la reserva |
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Candelabrum Cactus |
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Al pie de un inmenso ceibo de la reserva |
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Caciques and its nestles located in a ceibo tree |
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A sunset in front of Cerro Seco |
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Iguanas can be watched in the trees |
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Giant ceibos are found in the foot of the path |
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Fosforillo, an endemic plant of the Tumbesian area |
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Hundred of colorfull life can be enjoyed in it´s purest. |
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The frut of the muyuyo an endemic tree of Tumbesian forest |
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The life in it´s purest |
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Paths have designed for a good natural interpretation of the dry forest |
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Terrestrial gasteropodous |
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Eco interpreters will guide you. |
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Insects of many forms and color can be seen |
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Smal reptils shows its mimetism. |
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Beautiful look out point of Bahía de Caráquez at Cerro Seco. |
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Ecotourist in the look-out point |
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Dry tropical forest orchids can be found in this beautiful |
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Pacific Hornero, an endemic specie of Ecuatorian and Peru Coast |
