{"id":2423,"date":"2023-03-10T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2023-03-20T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:34:43","slug":"huanacaxtle-endemic-wood-in-cala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/huanacaxtle-endemic-wood-in-cala\/","title":{"rendered":"Huanacaxtle, endemic wood in Cala."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enterolobium Cyclocarpum scientific name for the “parota”, or in prehispanic language called Huanacaxlte, is an endemic specie from rainforest and tropical zones, common in Mexican territory as well in Latin America. This tree is majestic, very strong and tolerates high temperatures and monsoons, adverse soil and plagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks to the dense foliage and flowers, its a much appreciate tree to create shadow protection in open spaces, and also the wood, which is humidity and water resistant, frequently used in front doors, windows and furniture in houses, providing that natural and organic touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Huanacaxlte tree is ideal to re-forest due the fast growing and the efficiency of environment, this wood is not mentioned on CITES (International convention of commerce of threats wild animals and flora) nor in the list of UICN (International union to nature preservation). Huanacaxtle is much lighter but dense than other exotic hard woods like Acacia, Suar Monkey to name a couple, also the wood is easier to work on, also saving on complex machinery or factories as used on plywood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The wood has a natural bright and it is oily, that characteristics also protect it from thermite and insects that are abundant on tropical zones. That natural bright also avoid chemical varnish or lacquer to enhance the wood grain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here in Cala, we take advantage of the benefits and natural characteristics of this incredible wood, which is endemic of Mexican Coast and comes from a naturally sustainable source, to give the tropical look to every unit in the building, in the kitchen furniture, bathrooms and bedrooms, take a look to our spaces!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Guanacaste, Pich, Parota, Oreja de negro (2017) Biodiversidad Mexicana. Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad \u2013 CONABIO. Recuperado en:\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/3m6K66e<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enterolobium Cyclocarpum scientific name for the “parota”, or in prehispanic language called Huanacaxlte, is an endemic specie from rainforest and tropical zones, common in Mexican territory as well in Latin America. This tree is majestic, very strong and tolerates high temperatures and monsoons, adverse soil and plagues.       Thanks to the dense foliage… Read More »Huanacaxtle, endemic wood in Cala.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calahuatulco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}