DESTINATION COSTA RICA

Costa Rica was the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met. The northwest of the country, the Nicoya peninsula, was the southernmost point of Nahuatl cultural influence when the Spanish Conquistadores came in the 16th century.

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ARENAL VOLCANO Arenal Volcano, in Spanish Volcan Arenal, is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km northwest of San Jose, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortuna. The Arenal volcano measures at least 1,633 metres. It is conically shaped with a crater spanning 140 metres ...

CERRO CHIRRIPO Cerro Chirripo is the highest mountain in Costa Rica, with an altitude of 3,820 metres. It is located in the Chirripo National Park and is noted for its ecological wealth. The high peaks in this and La Amistad International Park host important areas of Talamancan montane forest and Costa Rican Paramo with high endemism and an extremely high biodiversity ...

COCOS ISLAND Cocos Island is an uninhabited island (except for the permanent ranger station) located off the shore of Costa Rica (to be distinguished from Cocos Island, Isla de Cocos, Panama in the Pearl Islands). It constitutes the 11th district of Puntarenas Canton of the province of Puntarenas. It is one of the National Parks of Costa Rica ...

LA FORTUNA WATERFALL La Fortuna Waterfall (Spanish for the fortune) is located in central Costa Rica, in the Alajuela Province. In Spanish, it is known as Catarata Fortuna. The waterfall drops about 70-75 meters and is located at the base of the dormant Chato volcano, about 5.5 km outside of the town of La Fortuna, near the Arenal Volcano ...

LA PAZ WATERFALL La Paz (Spanish for the peace) is a waterfall in central Costa Rica. In Spanish, it is known as Catarata de La Paz. It is located 31 kilometres north of Alajuela, between Vara Blanca and Cinchona. The waterfall is located immediately alongside the road from Alajuela that leads to the northern plains of Costa Rica ...

LAS BAULAS NATIONAL MARINE PARK The Las Baulas National Marine Park, also the Playa Grande Marine Turtle National Park or in Spanish Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas is a Nature Reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, and covers approximately 54,000 acres (220 km˛) marine near the town of Tamarindo ...

MANUEL ANTONIO NATIONAL PARK Manuel Antonio National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, is a small National Park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and 132 km from the national capital of San Jose. Established in 1972 with an area enumerating 4,014 acres ...

MONTEVERDE RESERVE Monteverde, Costa Rica is a small town in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Located in the Cordillera de TilarAn, roughly a four hour drive from the Central Valley of Costa Rica, Monteverde is considered a major ecotourism destination in Costa Rica. The area is perhaps best known for the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde ...

OROSI VALLEY Orosi is a very well known valley in Costa Rica because of its beautiful coffee plantations and also because of its Hot Springs, one of the most famous of these private farms is Chucaras Hotsprings Estate, where tourists can learn about coffee production and enjoy its Hot Springs swimming pools ...

POAS VOLCANO NATIONAL PARK Poas Volcano National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Volcan Poas, is a National Park that covers an area of approximately 16,000 acres; the summit is 8,900 feet. One of the attractive features about Poas is that you can get all the way to the edge of the crater. The volcano is located in the Central Volcanic Conservation Area ...

RED EYED TREE FROG The Red-eyed Treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) is an arboreal hylid native to Neotropical rainforests in Central America. Red-eyed tree frogs, as their name states, have red eyes with vertically narrowed noses, a vibrant green body with yellow and blue striped sides, and orange toes. There is a great deal of regional variation in flank and thigh coloration ...

TENORIO VOLCANO NATIONAL PARK Tenorio Volcano National Park is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica, which forms part of the Arenal Tilaran Conservation Area. The jewel of the National Park is the volcano, from which it receives its name. The Tenorio Volcano was made part of the National Park in 1995 and is located about 26 miles northeast from the town of Fortuna ...

TORTUGUERO NATIONAL PARK Tortuguero National Park is a National Park within the Tortuguero Conservation Area. The reserve is also included in the Humedal Caribe Noreste, a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. The park is located in the Limon Province of northeastern Costa Rica. It is the third-most visited park in Costa Rica ...

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