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Manuel Antonio National Park (Spanish: 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 157 km (98 mi) from the national capital of San José. It was established in 1972, when the local community sought ...
The wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an enormous variety of wildlife, due in large part to its geographic position between North and South America, its neotropical climate, and its wide variety of habitats.
Turrialba is the second highest volcano in Costa Rica with an elevation of 3,340 m (10,960 ft). The volcano is periodically active. [34] Total: 816,521 ha (2,017,670 acres) (including ocean) The land area of national parks make up 13 percent of the area of Costa Rica and about one-half of the total protected land area in Costa Rica.
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A well-camouflaged aquarit anole An aquatic anole in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. Anolis aquaticus, commonly known as the water anole, is a semi-aquatic species of anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae, native to southwestern Costa Rica and far southwestern Panama. [2]
This is a list of amphibians found in Costa Rica. A total of 194 amphibian species have been recorded in Costa Rica, three of which are extinct.
The Mount Hamiguitan range, with an area of 6,834 hectares (68.34 km 2), was declared a national park and a wildlife sanctuary in 2003. [7] In 2014, the park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, becoming the first in Mindanao and the sixth in the Philippines. [6] Mount Hamiguitan is part of the Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor. [8]
[4] [5] Each of the four species can be seen in national parks within Costa Rica, where viewing them in natural surroundings is a popular tourist attraction. [6] [7] A place where all four species can be seen is Corcovado National Park, on the Osa Peninsula. [8] The smallest of the Costa Rican monkey species is the Central American squirrel monkey.