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Costa Rica World Heritage Sites

There are three designated World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica. Each of them is unique, providing different habitat than each of the others. Area de Conservacion Guanacaste is the most accessible and includes several volcanoes, tropical dry forest and several important nesting areas for sea turtles such as the olive ridley, leatherback, loggerhead and green turtles. The Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserve and National Park starts in the center of the country and extends south to Panama where it continues. It is difficult to access due to the lack of maintained trails and rugged terrain. This is the wildest and tallest non-volcanic range in Central America with peaks over 4,000 meters above sea level. Cocos Island National Park is the only tropical eastern Pacific island with rainforest. Click on the links below to read more about Costa Rica World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage

Located in the northwestern part of Costa Rica, the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste is a World Heritage Site. It is comprised of...
Encompassing an area of 765 square miles, La Amistad International Park is the largest natural reserve in Central America. The park is located in the Talamanca...
Used as a pirate hideout hundreds of years ago, Cocos Island National Park is a diver's paradise as it contains 11,500 acres of water filled with hammerhead...


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