Rincón de La Vieja National Park Rincón de la Vieja National Parks was created in 1973 to protect the flora, fauna and watersheds around Rincón de la Vieja Volcano.The parks extends over 14,083 hectares of semi-deciduous forest and very moist forest, includes a barren, rocky terrain at altitudes that range from 650 meters to 1,916 meters above sea level on the Caribbean and Pacific sides of the Guanacaste Volcanic Mountain Range. More ...
Palo Verde National Park ranges over 13.058 hectares of marshes floodplains, lagoons, meandering channels, low limestone ridges and pools in the lower basin of the Rivers Tempisque and Bebedero.
Cahuita National Park Lush vegetation, white sandy beaches, coconut trees, coral reefs, mangrove swamps, marshes and a hot, humid climate are some of the components of Cahuita, a National Park 1,067 hectares located on the Caribbean shore, southeast of the city of Limón. More ...
Corcovado National Park is one of the protected wilderness areas with the greatest biodiversity in Costa Rica.It ranges over the western sector of the Osa Peninsula on the southern Pacific coast and protects 41.788 hectares of shallow lagoons, marshes, mangrove swamps, rivers, rainforest, low altitude cloud forest and 46 kms. of sandy coasts.
Irazú Volcano National Park Previously known as the “Volcano of Thunder and Tremors”, the Irazú Volcano National Park is located on the continental divide, 15 kilometers, as the crow flies, northeast of the city of Cartago.It covers 2,309 hectares that range from 2,200 to 3,432 meters above sea level. More ...
