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Costa Rica Places Of InterestCosta Rica is home to some of the most beautiful beaches and parks in the world. The Corcovado National Park, just one of Costa Rica’s spectacular parks, was established in the 1970’s. Corcovado is extremely isolated and includes the only truly virgin rain forest left in Central America. Early in the 20th century, the area was considered so remote that it became a kind of penal colony, a place where people were sent for punishment. They survived by hacking down trees, growing a few crops, fishing, and panning the rivers for gold. Corcovado Park’s amazing variety of wildlife includes scarlet macaws, jacamars, hummingbirds, harpy eagles, white lipped peccaries-also known as wild pigs-as well as jaguars, giant anteaters, sloths and squirrel monkeys. The park is a veritable storehouse of Central American natural history. Other parks and fine beaches include Cabo Blanco Reserve at the southern tip of the NIcoya Peninsula, and the tiny Manuuel Antonio National Park south of San Jose, popular for its miles of fine white sand. You have to wade across a shallow estuary to reach the beaches, but it is well worth the effort and the short trip! The beaches of the National Park of Santa Rosa in the northwest are equally beautiful and quite important. Two of Santa Rosa’s beaches are well known nesting sites for turtles, and the tiny Nancite beach is visited by thousands of Pacific Ridley turtles every year. From Moin, on the Caribbean coast near Puerto Limon, a series of canals just inland from the sea run northwest to Barra del Colorado. These canals are home to sea cows, also known as manatees, large mammals that live on water plants and never leave the water. Some of the lagoons and large stretches of the beaches have been set aside as the National Park of Tortuguero. These beaches are the most important nesting places in the western Caribbean for the endangered green turtles. |
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