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A green-crowned brilliant in the Monteverde Cloud Forest. 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 ...
The Cañón de Santa Elena Flora and Fauna Protection Area (Spanish: Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Cañón de Santa Elena) is a protected area for plants and wildlife in the Mexican municipalities of Manuel Benavides and Ojinaga, in the state of Chihuahua. It was founded on November 7, 1994 and has an area of 277,209 hectares.
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 ...
Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica. References Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica, ISBN 0-8014-9600-4; Further reading. Skutch ...
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.
The area where Hacienda Santa Elena is located has been used for agriculture since the early days of the Spanish colonization of Puerto Rico.The fertile flooding plains of the so-called Toa Valley (Valle del Toa) in particular were first developed for agriculture in the mid-1500s during the period of transition between gold mining and the fortification of San Juan in the military development ...
National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) Santa Elena Bay Management Marine Area ( Spanish : Área Marina de Manejo Bahía Santa Elena ), is a marine protected area in Costa Rica , managed under the Guanacaste Conservation Area , it was created in 2018 by decree 41171-MINAE.
It was created in 1992 and covers an area of both rain and cloud forest. The reserve contains the sources of the Aguas Zarcas , Platanar , Tora , Tres Amigos and La Vieja rivers. Lake Pozo Verde is located within the park.