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Description Llano de la Soledad is part of a grasslands complex of 50 colonies of Mexican Prairie Dogs, distributed at the point where the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas meet. This region’s grasslands house the largest concentrations of various grassland birds, including some very vulnerable species such as Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus, Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus and Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda. It stands out as one of the most fragile open grassland ecosystems with the highest conservation priority for highland wintering shorebirds and birds associated with the North American Central Grasslands biome.Llano de la Soledad is where the presence of the prairie dog is the widest and more continuous in Mexico and, possibly, in the whole of North America. The conservation and management of this prairie is important for maintaining healthy populations of highland shorebirds, whose distributions are closely linked to the open grasslands biome of North America. Their population studies show important declines and, for this reason, they have been identified as having a high degree of vulnerability in North America. Location Llano de la Soledad is in the Municipality of Galeana, Nuevo León and Saltillo, Coahuila. The site belongs to the Chihuahua desert eco-region which in its southern part is known as the Central Plateau and High Plateau. Llano de la Soledad is a natural area protected at the state level. The region is recognised as an Important Bird Area.
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Site Facts
Country, State, Province/Region: Mexico, Nuevo León, Coahuila Relative Location: Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion, Mexican Altiplano Latitude/Longitude: 24° 49' N, 100° 41' W Category: International Site Basis for Designation: Used by more than 1,500 Mountain Plovers (8.3% of the world population) and 6,000 Long billed Curlews (15% of the world population) Size: 9,000 ha of open short grasslands Joined: 19 October 2005 Site Owner/Steward: Private and communal lands administered by the Agency of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Nuevo León Site Partners: Pronatura Noreste A.C., Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, The Nature Conservancy, PROFAUNA A.C. Human Population within 100 km Approximately 1,000,000 in the towns of Saltillo, Galeana and San Rafael Contact: Pronatura Noreste A.C. mcruz@pronaturane.org |
