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Insight Costa Rica
In the Pura Vida Hotel
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Tel: 011-506-2430-2929
Fax: 011-506-2430-2630
Cell: 011-506-8878-3899
EMAIL us at:
InsightCostaRica
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An Insight into Guanacaste National Park
Created in 1989,
Guanacaste National Park was established with the principal intention
of forming a biological corridor to connect Santa Rosa National Park
with high elevation cloud forest and Caribbean slope rain forest.
The
70,000 hectares (a very BIG park) of Guanacaste National Park extend from Santa Rosa's
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border with the Pan American Highway northeastward to the peaks of Orosi
and Cacao Volcanoes and across the Continental Divide onto the Caribbean
slopes of these two volcanoes. This extension of Santa Rosa will provide
a sufficiently large area of protected land to ensure the future of
wide-ranging species such as Jaguar and Mountain Lion, while at the same
time allowing those species of birds and insects that make local seasonal
migrations between the dry forest and the evergreen cloud and rain forests
to continue their annual movements without threat of continued loss of
habitat.
The foundation and development of GNP is described in wonderful
detail in the "The Green Phoenix" by William Allen - of all the books to
read before you come to Costa Rica this heartening tale of the rebuilding
of a tropical dry forest is a critical read.
If you'd like to visit GNP email us at:
InsightCostaRica for information or ideas?
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