Yuké 🇵🇷 El Yunque- Puerto Rico Come with me as we search for the waterfalls! El Yunque is the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. National Forest System. Located in Puerto Rico’s northeast, it stretches across eight municipalities and spans nearly 29,000 acres. To the Taíno people, El Yunque was our version of Mount Olympus. We believed our supreme deity, Yúcahu, the god of goodness, fertility, and agriculture, lived on these peaks— sitting on a throne of clouds. The original name Yuké means