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Parque Ecologico Bosque de Cinquera

13.88353 , -88.96487

El Salvador

Cinquera is small town in the province of Cabañas during the civil war due to heavy combats between the guerrillas and the army the inhabitants had to abandon it. Most of them spend around 8 years in refugee camps acroos from the border in Honduras. Only the inhabitants that had join the guerrillas stay but in the surrounding mountains same land that in the past were Haciendas owned by landlords that made them work in the corn fields and other plantations. A couple of years before the end of the war (1990) most of the people decided to return despite the conflict. When the peace agreements were signed the people from the town were given land, those surrounding mountains that they were working in the past. Part of that land is what has become the Ecological Park that the community built. It is a secondary forest with some old trees, the vegetation you can see is approximately 40 years old and what it used be crop fields now has become a patch of dry forest. The main attraction of the park is its history since in that mountain they are still camps, stoves, trenches that by hiring local guide Rafael you can have a delight of a tour about the history of the place.

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• geographic/ biogeographic location
• habitat and vegetation
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Coordinates were set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) : 13.8835/-88.9649 (2021-01-22 17:59:11 )

Site name was set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) as "Parque Ecologico Bosque De Cinquera" (2021-01-22 17:59:11 )

Edited by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos on 2021-08-08 12:11:46
Cinquera is small town in the province of Cabañas during the civil war due to heavy combats between the guerrillas and the army the inhabitants had to abandon it. Most of them spend around 8 years in refugee camps acroos from the border in Honduras. Only the inhabitants that had join the guerrillas stay but in the surrounding mountains same land that in the past were Haciendas owned by landlords that made them work in the corn fields and other plantations. A couple of years before the end of the war (1990) most of the people decided to return despite the conflict. When the peace agreements were signed the people from the town were given land, those surrounding mountains that they were working in the past. Part of that land is what has become the Ecological Park that the community built. It is a secondary forest with some old trees, the vegetation you can see is approximately 40 years old and what it used be crop fields now has become a patch of dry forest. The main attraction of the park is its history since in that mountain they are still camps, stoves, trenches that by hiring local guide Rafael you can have a delight of a tour about the history of the place.

  • Top species

List up to ca. 25 species that:
• have a limited distribution range and/or are rare on a global level
• are most sought-after by birdwatchers at this site
• and are relatively easy to see at this site (year-round or seasonally)

Elegant Trogon (Trogon elegans)
Long-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis)
Northern Bentbill (Oncostoma cinereigulare)
Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus)
Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtata)
Banded Wren (Thryophilus pleurostictus)
Olivaceous Flycatcher (Fraseria olivascens)

Elegant Trogon (Trogon elegans) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:52:46)

Lesser Greenlet (Pachysylvia decurtata) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:52:28)

Olivaceous Flycatcher (Fraseria olivascens) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:52:17)

Northern Bentbill (Oncostoma cinereigulare) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:51:59)

Long-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:51:44)

Banded Wren (Thryophilus pleurostictus) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:51:30)

Bright-rumped Attila (Attila spadiceus) was added by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos (2021-08-08 12:51:21)

  • Timing and strategy

Cinquera is approximately 80 kilometers away from San Salvador and it takes around 2 hours to get there. Another possibility is doing a daytrip from Suchitoto that you are 30 minutes away from Cinquera. The best time to do the tour is at 6 a.m, the park rangers are not there early but when you leave you can pay the fees to them. It is much better if you have a guide with you since the trails are not well marked. The trails is a total of 4 kilometers long and the difficulty is III out of V.  The highest point of the trail is the observation tower and then goes down to the river area to go back to the main parking lot. There is good birding along the year but the best time to do it will be between March and May since is the breeding season of the Long-tailed Manakin and your chances to the courtship display are high. 

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Edited by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos on 2021-08-08 12:19
Cinquera is approximately 80 kilometers away from San Salvador and it takes around 2 hours to get there. Another possibility is doing a daytrip from Suchitoto that you are 30 minutes away from Cinquera. The best time to do the tour is at 6 a.m, the park rangers are not there early but when you leave you can pay the fees to them. It is much better if you have a guide with you since the trails are not well marked. The trails is a total of 4 kilometers long and the difficulty is III out of V.  The highest point of the trail is the observation tower and then goes down to the river area to go back to the main parking lot. There is good birding along the year but the best time to do it will be between March and May since is the breeding season of the Long-tailed Manakin and your chances to the courtship display are high. 
  • How to get there

There is good road to Cinquera and to the parking of the Ecological Park, a normal car can make it all the way to there. If you want to get there by bus in San Salvador you need to get bus 129 and then in Suchitoto change the bus to 482 that will take you to Cinquera. By car the drving time is aorund 2 hours and by bus the total time will be aproximately 3 hours and a half. From Suchitoto the company Suchitoto Adventure Tours offers a tour to the Ecological Park of Cinquera.

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Edited by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos on 2021-08-08 12:26
There is good road to Cinquera and to the parking of the Ecological Park, a normal car can make it all the way to there. If you want to get there by bus in San Salvador you need to get bus 129 and then in Suchitoto change the bus to 482 that will take you to Cinquera. By car the drving time is aorund 2 hours and by bus the total time will be aproximately 3 hours and a half. From Suchitoto the company Suchitoto Adventure Tours offers a tour to the Ecological Park of Cinquera.

The same park is a historical attraction, if you hire local guide Rafael who was a local guerrilla commander he will show you the place and all the different spots that are related to the conflict that the area lived during the civil war of El Salvador.

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Edited by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos on 2021-08-08 12:28
The same park is a historical attraction, if you hire local guide Rafael who was a local guerrilla commander he will show you the place and all the different spots that are related to the conflict that the area lived during the civil war of El Salvador.
  • Other attractions

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• wildlife (apart from birds)
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The community of Cinquera has set a Hostel and Restaurant at the town for the visitors.

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Edited by Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos on 2021-08-08 12:28
The community of Cinquera has set a Hostel and Restaurant at the town for the visitors.

Are there any security issues or other annoyances at this site? For
instance, these may include:
• offenses like robbery or theft
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• dangerous or annoying animals or plants (mosquitoes, leaches, thorn bushes, etc.)
• noise pollution

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2020-02-19 to 2020-02-22 Lorenz Hintz Birding Tour Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos
2019-11-08 to 2019-11-11 Chris Fischer's 2019 Central American Big Year El Salvador Trip 2 Julio Cesar Acosta Burgos
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