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HIGUEY (La Altagracia)





The Altagracia is a province that relies on two of the tourist destinations of major growth in The Caribbean, that they are Punta Cana and Bavaro and with Higuey's city that is the center of attraction of tourists and devout of the virgin of The Altagracia It is the province of major tourist development of the country, being the most important places the Bavaro's tourist pole - Grey-haired Top, Bayahibe, Yuma's Mouth The National Park of the East. Grey-haired top, it possesses the Ecological Reservation Indigenous Eyes, in that they can appreciate 12 lagoons of incomparable beauty, of which three are spa. The names of the lagoons are of indigenous origin, between that they are: Lagoon Yauya, Yuyita, Guácara, Turey, Casibajagua and Guamá.

To give hospitality to tourists, Punta Cana and Bavarian offer the services of wide hotel chains between which there are Iberostar, Sol Meliá, Palladium, Bavarian beach between others. Grey-haired Top and Juanillo includes the beaches of Macao, Cortecito, Bavarian, Fat Sand, Head of Bull, with dozens of beaches with thin white sand shaded by beautiful cocotales. These beaches have jointly, besides his exquisite beauty, diverse attractions in his environments. Between them one tells him the National Park of the East, ecological reservation that possesses the major concentration of cave art of The Antilles. The island is lived by a fishermen's small community. It has leafy forests, sandy beaches and marshes - refuges of a great diversity of insects, reptiles and birds, many of endemic them of the island. On his marine fauna tortoises and sea-cows are fed.




By: Helen Diclo