Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park
Underwater national park protecting coral reefs, mangroves and remote fishing island communities.
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This guide to Cartagena's Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park centers on Santa Cruz del Islote, a fishing settlement built so densely over the reef that its residents have no land to grow food and no fresh water of their own. It traces how fishermen from Baru are said to have sheltered here a century and a half ago and simply stayed, and how the island still depends on navy boats for water and a fish trade for everything else. Every plantain and bag of rice that reaches the island still arrives the same way, by boat, paid for in fish.
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