Cabo Pulmo National Park

	Cabo Pulmo National Park IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
	Coastline in the Cabo Pulmo National Park
location	Baja California Sur , Mexico
WDPA ID	306779
Geographical location	23 ° 40 ′ N , 109 ° 40 ′ W Coordinates: 23 ° 39 ′ 37 " N , 109 ° 40 ′ 1" W
Setup date	June 6, 1995

The Cabo Pulmo National Park is a National Marine Park . It is located on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California . Bahía Pulmo has the oldest of the only three coral reefs on the west coast of North America .

geography

The Cabo Pulmo National Park is located between Pulmo Point and Los Frailes about 100 km north of Cabo San Lucas .

development

The Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo declared the area around Cabo Pulmo a national marine park on June 5, 1995 .

Since the 1980s, the reef has been heavily influenced by environmental factors, including hurricanes and the effects of medium and strong El Niño events. In the early 1990s, the central areas of the reef had a live Pocillopora coverage of ~ 40%. Between 1997 and 2003 the reef lost almost 50% of its coral population due to various natural events such as four hurricanes and the strong El Niño influences in 1997/1998.

literature

H. Reyes ‐ Bonilla, LE Calderon ‐ Aguilera (1999): Population density , distribution and consumption rates of three corallivores at Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Ecology , 20 (3-4), 347-357.
H. Reyes-Bonilla (1993): 1987 coral reef bleaching at Cabo Pulmo reef, Gulf of California, Mexico. Bulletin of marine science, 52 (2), 832-837.

Individual evidence

↑ Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla: Comparison of community structure and functional diversity of fishes at Cabo Pulmo coral reef, western Mexico between 1987 and 2003 . Proceedings of 10th International Coral Reef Symposium . Vol. 2. 2006.

[1] Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla: Comparison of community structure and functional diversity of fishes at Cabo Pulmo coral reef, western Mexico between 1987 and 2003 . Proceedings of 10th International Coral Reef Symposium . Vol. 2. 2006.