Site Report: Playa Punta Raza

View from Juan and Maria's restaurant, overlooking Playa Punta Raza

Evil Land Crab


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View from Juan and Maria's restaurant, overlooking Playa Punta Raza

Evil Land Crab
Playa Punta Raza has a very long mostly empty beach with rough waves. There is a really great lookout at the south end of the beach. One time I came to this beach (in winter), and it looked great, but I came back in summer, and there were three dead sea turtles, tons of trash, and spots where people looked to be changing their oil on the ground. The jungle above the beach was pretty full of birds.
Visits
- 2008-01-05: None
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (6 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Malacostracans
(1 record)
- Order: Crabs
(1 record)
- Family: Land Crab
- Mexican Land Crab (Hartnollius quadratus)
Phylum: Chordates
(5 records)
Class: Birds
(2 records)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Grebes
- Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(1 record)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Black-throated Magpie-Jay (Cyanocorax colliei)
Class: Mammals
(3 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(1 record)
- Family: Procyonidae
- Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
- Order: Cetacea
(1 record)
- Family: Balaenopteridae
- Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
- Order: Xenarthra
(1 record)
- Family: Dasypodidae
- Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)