REFUGIO DE VIDA SILVESTRE ISLA CORAZON
Isla Corazon is located in the estuary of the Chone River, just 30 minutes from Bahia de Caraquez using a motor boat and 15 minutes by car. It is a mangrove formation that resembles the shape of a heart, translated that means "corazon" in Spanish. There is an ecotouristic path in the interior of the island which facilitates the observation of the fauna and flora life of the mangrove.
La Isla Corazón is the habitat of one of the biggest frigate bird colony in the Pacific Coast of South America. The island is also the habitat of bird species such as pelicans, white ibis, cormorants, egrets, herons, night herons, kingfishers and migratory birds.
 |
El muciélago blanco es otro de los atractivos preferidos por los ecoturistas |
The island is managed by the community of fishermen of Portovelo (Asomanglar) since 1998. The island has an interpretative center where there is located a group of small aquariums that shows the life of the mangroves such as shrimps, fishes, mollusk, and crustaceous, there is also a room to watch and an introductory video and to see a photo exposition of birds of the estuary.
With  the assistance of a native guide and a tour leader, you will visit the frigate bird colony and then you will be taken by dugout canoes trough a mangrove tunnel which is one of the most commented on experience of the tour according our eco travelers. You will see the artisan techniques of fishing and mollusk and crustaceous recollecting, you will hear some old traditional storys told by your fisherman-native guide, one of them being 'The legend of the goblin of Isla Corazon'.
CONTACT US
 |
The shape of the Island is a heart that in spanish means Corazón |
|
Yellow crown Night Heron |
 |
A majestic male waiting a female in the breeding seaseon |
 |
Isla Corazon is the largest frigate bird colony in the pacific coast of southamerica |
 |
In a confortable dugout canoe you will enjoy the nature |
 |
The mangrove tunnel trough the roots of the mangrove forest |
 |
The white ibis |
 |
La segunda colonia más grande de aves son los ibis. |
 |
Un interesante sendero en medio del manglar es visitado |
 |
La garza tricolor anida en un sector de la Isla |
 |
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
 |
Nycticorax nycticorax |
 |
Nyctanassa violacea |
 |
Bulbucus ibis |
 |
Megaceryle torcuata |
 |
Larus atricilla |
 |
En islas Fragatas a igual que isla Corazón se puede observar colonias de cormoranes |
 |
Ostero Americano ( Haematopus palliatus ) |
 |
Dugout canoes |
 |
The entrance of the path inside the mangrove |
 |
An adventure in dugout canoe |
 |
In the tunnels of the mangrove |
 |
Brown Pelicans |
 |
White ibis and frigate birds |
 |
A young frigate bird |
 |
A group of white ibis |
 |
White ibis resting |
 |
The canoe at the bredding place of the frigate bird. |
 |
Neotropical cormorans |
|
A male of the Magnificent Frigate bird opening its wings |
 |
The cocoi heron |
 |
The striated Heron |
 |
Varieties of colors you can see in this refugee |
 |
White egrettes belong to the check list of the birds of Isla Corazón |
 |
The enigmatic white bat of Isla Corazón |
 |
Ringed Kingfisher |
 |
The lisa, a comun fish from the rio Chone. One of the native guide Julio from Isla Corazóm. His main job is the fish. |
 |
Boa conscriptor, well known locally as "culebra matacaballo" is one of the reptilians that live in Isla Corazon. |
