Oct 9th, 2006
What are mangroves?
In Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, you will enjoy the National Park tour but you should also consider the Damas Island Mangrove boat tour.
We’d like to give you some information about mangroves.
“Mangroves (generally) are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats. The word is used in at least three senses, most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangal, and narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora. Mangal is found in depositional coastal environments where fine sediments, often with high organic content, collect in areas protected from high energy wave action.”
Source : Wikipedia
Mangrove - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove