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The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest ...
Monteverde [1] is the twelfth canton of the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, [2] located in the Cordillera de Tilarán (Tilarán range). Roughly a four-hour drive from the Central Valley, Monteverde is one of the country's major ecotourism destinations, with the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde (Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve) being the largest, in addition to several other ...
Bellavista Cloud Forest, Ecuador. The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) certified conservation area on the North-Western slopes of the Andean mountain range and is located 52 km from the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito.
Curi Cancha Wildlife Refuge is a private wildlife refuge in the central part of Costa Rica, and protects cloud forest in the Cordillera de Tilarán near Juntas. The refuge entrance is about a kilometer before the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. The lower portion is drier, with few epiphytes, but the upper portion is cloud forest.
Maquipucuna is a 6,000 hectare (14,820 acre) cloud forest reserve in Ecuador. Located in the Pichincha Province , it is the closest pristine rainforest to Quito , Ecuador's capital. The reserve consists of primary and secondary montane rain forest and cloud forest. [ 1 ]
Manu National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional del Manu) is a national park and biosphere reserve located in the regions of Madre de Dios and Cusco in Peru. [1] It protects a diverse number of ecosystems including lowland rainforests, cloud forests and Andean grasslands. [1]
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El Triunfo is home to a range of plant communities, including tropical dry forest, foothill and montane evergreen moist forest, and pine–oak forest. 977 species of plants have been recorded in the reserve. [2] El Triunfo is notable for its cloud forests, which occur in mountain areas with high year-round rainfall.