Mil Cumbres is a natural reserve that has approximately 17 thousand hectares, in the northern part that belongs to the municipality of La Palma, in Pinar del Río. It is located in the Cordillera de Guaniguanico.
When visiting the place you can appreciate wooded ridges that allow you to enjoy a beautiful and imposing landscape also made up of the houses of the peasants, who share their experiences and their way of life; in addition to the deep knowledge they have about the environment that surrounds them. The valleys and topographic depressions are also part of the wonderful geography of the place.
Nearly 155,000 species of flora have been discovered in this site and it is the place that, they say, has the greatest green endemism, inhabiting between 35 and 40 species of typical Cuban flowers. The landscape is covered by fruit and timber trees, offering the traveler their gratifying shade in the midst of the heat and sweat of a long walk. The rivers are also part of the beautiful landscapes and there are a large number of streams that cross the area.
Orchids, in many of their variations, abound, as do ferns and lycophytes. Of these primitive plants, 34 species have been found; but the most relevant plant, considered as a living fossil, is the cork palm.
