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2. Costa Rican seasonal moist forests - Wikipedia

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   The northern mountain range in Costa Rica, the Cordillera de Guanacaste, stretches for 110 km from the border with Nicaragua southeast to Costa Rica's Cordillera Central (Costa Rica). As the range occurs where the Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate there are many stratovolcanoes in the Cordillera de Guancaste.

3. Talamancan montane forests - Wikipedia

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   The forests are made up of evergreen trees, including many species (genera Ocotea, Persea, Nectandra, and Phoebe) of the laurel family , and two endemic oaks, Quercus costaricensis and Quercus copeyensis. Lauraceae are the predominant canopy trees in the northern mountains, while oaks are dominant in the upper montane forests of the southerly ...

4. Monteverde - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Corcovado National Park - Wikipedia

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   The tourism industry in Costa Rica recruits many locals to work in the parks as tour guides and park rangers, hotels and restaurants, and other services as well. After the tourist industry experienced a temporary collapse from COVID-19, illegal miners and illegal hunters returned to their old ways since their new livelihood could no longer ...

6. La Amistad International Park - Wikipedia

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   La Amistad International Park is equally split between Costa Rica and Panama, as part of the former La Amistad Reserves. The park protects a large part of the Cordillera de Talamanca mountain range, including the highest point in Costa Rica, Cerro Chirripó. It covers 401,000 ha of tropical forest and is the largest nature reserve in Central ...

7. Selvatura Park - Wikipedia

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   The Selvatura Adventure Park, or Monteverde Nature Center, Sloth habitat and Butterfly Gardens is a nature center in Monteverde, northwestern Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. It is located in the Cordillera de Tilarán mountain range, close to the village of Santa Elena .