When Julia Danced Bomba/<br>Cuando Julia bailaba bomba
Broken Butterfly Wings/<br>Alas de mariposa rotas
BOOK TRAILER
Broken Butterfly Wings, Alas de mariposa rotas
MEDIA
It’s About You WKYC Channel 3, Raquel M. Ortiz – Broken Butterfly Wings, Alas de mariposa rotas, 10/7/21
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INFORMATION ABOUT EL YUNQUE NATIONAL FOREST
El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest, is a tropical rainforest. El Yunque is located in northeastern Puerto Rico in the Sierra de Luquillo. It receives more than 200 inches of rain per year and covers 28,000 acres of land. This national park is what remains of the original tropical forest that covered almost all of the island of Puerto Rico when the Spanish arrived more than 500 years ago.
It’s believed that the name El Yunque comes from the Taíno word yunqué, which means “white lands.” For the Taínos, the indigenous people of Puerto Rico, the mountain Yunqué was sacred, the place where their gods lived. To this day on La Roca (The Rock), on the south side of the rainforest, you can see Taíno petroglyphs.
The rainforest has the famous waterfalls La Coca Falls, La Mina Falls, and Juan Diego Falls. It is also home to hundreds of animal and plant species, some of which can only be found in El Yunque. There are many different types of birds, bats, lizards and coquís or tree frogs living in El Yunque. And, while it’s rare to find snakes, the Puerto Rican Boa lives here. El Yunque is also home to the nearly extinct Puerto Rican Parrot that is the only remaining native parrot in Puerto Rico.
OTHER BOOKS RELATED TO HURRICANE MARIA:
Por Ahí Viene El Huracán by Laura Rexach Olivencia, Mya Pagan, Editorial Destellos
La Cucarachita Martina y el terrible huracán (Colección La mancha de plátano) by Tere Marichal-Lugo, Colección La mancha de plátano, 2019
Thiago y la Aventura del Huracán, Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro, Editorial EDP University
Mi isla bella / Mi isla hermosa, Isset Pastrana-Andino, Aparicio Distributors, Inc.
