Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address: Rt 2 Box 202A
Alamo, TX 78516
Phone: 956-784-7500;
Fax: 956-787-8338;
Web: www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/santana.html
Established: 1943.
Location: Southern Texas, 7 miles south of Alamo.
Facilities: Visitor center, viewing sites, trails (12 miles, @di), auto tour route (7 miles), butterfly garden.
Activities: Hiking, bicycling, tram tours (seasonal).
Special Features: Santa Ana is located where subtropical climate, gulf coast, great plains, and Chihuahuan desert converge. Thousands of birds from the Central and Mississippi flyways funnel through the area on their way to and from Central and South America. Area is also habitat for about half of all butterfly species found in North America.
Habitats: 2,088 acres of thorn forest.
Access: Open sunrise to sunset.
Wild life: Black-bellied and fulvous whistling duck, blue-winged, green-winged, and cinnimon teal, anhinga, white ibis, northern harrier, peregrine falcon, hook-billed kite, buff-bellied hummingbird, roseate spoonbill, Mexican ground squirrel, and the endangered ocelot and jaguarundi.

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