National Parks
Curu
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Curú is a private property declared National Wildlife Refuge. It is constituted by beaches, mangrove swamps and beautiful forested hills. The Refuge is flanked by sedimentary rock’s hills wich form cliffs and inlets.
Some animals that one may observe in the refuge are: garrobos, iguanas, deer, congo and carablanca monkeys, raccoons, coyotes, pizotes, tepezcuintles and […]
Palo Verde
Friday, March 7th, 2008Located 15 kilometers south of the town of Bagaces, Palo Verde occupies an area made up of floodplains and saltwater and freshwater lagoons and marshes, habitat for the greatest concentration of aquatic birds in Costa Rica. Species that can be observed here include jabirus, black-bellied whistling ducks, Muscovy ducks, herons, blue-winged teals, ibises and […]
Isla Alcatraz
Friday, March 7th, 2008Known as Tortuga, Isla Alcatraz sits amid the waters of the Gulf of Nicoya. No hotels or tourism services are available, so that visitors who come to the island for a few hours can enjoy it in a more natural state. They may rest in the shade of the island’s palms, sunbathe on its ultra-white […]
Coco Island
Friday, March 7th, 2008This national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997, owing to is unparalleled natural beauty and biological wealth. At 24 square kilometers, the island features cliffs reaching 183 meters tall and an infinite number of underwater caves. Created in 1978, the park has two main bays, Wafer and Chatham, at its north […]
Carara National Park
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Originally established as a biological preserve in 1978, this park changed management systems some years after. A transition point from dry forest to tropical wet forest, Carara consists of 5,242 hectares containing three different life zones and many tree species valued for their wood, such as ojoche, guanacaste, cristobal and purpleheart.
Standing out among the […]
San Lucas Wildlife Refuge
Friday, March 7th, 2008With an area of approximately 500 hectares, this island is lined with beaches and cliffs. Scheduled trips are offered by a handful of water transportation companies. Located between two points, the island’s main beach is called El Coco; the city of Puntarenas is visible from this gray-sand beach. San Lucas is a great place to […]
Playa Curu
Monday, March 3rd, 2008It is located inside the Curu National Wildlife Refuge and is a beautiful little inlet, with smooth swelling. It has coastal vegetation and a mangrove swamp, congos and carablanca’s monkeys as well as racoons, iguanas and many other animals can be found on it’s different types of forests. It possesses a very pleasant coastal landscape […]
Ostional
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Ostional was established as a refuge to protect the olive ridley turtles that nest on this shore. The most important nesting area stretches from a place known as La Roca to the Ostional estuary. In addition to the olive ridley, which nests in the refuge year-round, giant leatherback and green turtles nest from September to […]
Diria
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Located in Santa Cruz, this refuge protects the area’s hydrographic basin system and around 1,500 hectares of forest. Above 700 meters, evergreen species prevail, hosting moss and gigantic bromeliads.
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Barra Honda National Parks
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Located 22 kilometers northeast of Nicoya, this park’s 2,295 hectares protect an important geological feature: a system of calcareous caverns with stalactite and stalagmite formations. At 450 meters high, Barra Honda hill is made up of ancient coral reefs pushed up out of the earth by tectonic faults.
Around 19 caverns have been explored. Terciopelo […]