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El Yunque Tropical Rainforest
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Lush forests, verdant hills and crashing waterfalls attract visitors to El Yunque (
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), the only true rainforests in the US. It's a place to embark on a short hike through
the oxygen-rich mist and gawk at Jurassic-sized ferns. You will get wet, so take a raincoat,
but bring binoculars, too; of the 26 species found here and nowhere else in the world, you'll
want to keep a sharp eye out for the Puerto Rican parrot, one of the 10 most endangered
birds on earth.
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