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Travel and volunteering with wildlife, children and indigenous communities in Costa Rica.  A look at our wonderful volunteers experiencing the real Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Tortuguero National Park, Tortuguero Conservation Area <br /><br />
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Location: North Caribbean, Pococi canton, Limon, 80 kilometers Northeast of Limon port .<br />
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This is the most important spawning area on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast for green, leatherback and hawksbill turtles.<br />
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The main characteristic of the Tortuguero National Park is its canal system, wetlands and swamps, both natural and also those widened by man. costarica national park

Tortuguero National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Video:nSanta Rosa National Park Guanacaste Conservation Area <br /><br />
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Location: Dry Pacific, La Cruz canton, province of Guanacaste, 36 km North of the city of Liberia <br />
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Santa Rosa National Park was the site of the most important act of heroism on national territory, the Battle of Santa Rosa. March 20, 1856.  the Costa Rican army, under the command of the then head of state Juan Rafael Mora, expelled the filibusters from Costa Rican territory.<br />
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The remains of seven archaeological sites reveal pre-Columbian human activity. <br />
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The towns around the Park are: Potrerillos, Puerto Soley, El Jobo, Horizontes, Colonia Bolaños and Cuajiniquil. Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica<br />

Santa Rosa National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve |Arenal Conservation Area<br />
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 Location: This area extends along the spurs of the Tilaran mountain range, close to the point where the provinces of Alajuela, Puntarenas and Guanacaste converge. 

Monteverde Cloud Forest protects more than 10,500 hectares of cloud forest, one of the most widely known in the world. It also protects the Children’s Eternal Forest.

thanks to the number of documentaries that have been filmed there, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is one of the best known cloud forests in the world. 

Monteverde is located only 15 miles from La Fortuna, Costa Rica home of the Arenal Volcano, but is a 4-6 hour drive around Lake Arenal to get there depending on the time of year and road conditions.

Monteverde Cloud Forest...

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Manuel Antonio National Park | Central Pacific Conservation Area<br />
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Location: Central Pacific, Aguirre canton, seven kilometers South of the city of Quepos, and an our south of the beach town Playa Jaco.

Manuel Antonio National Park has various activities such as tourism, agriculture and livestock, in addition to massive extraction of timber wood species. Currently it is regenerating and shelters species such as the squirrel monkey.

Manuel Antonio National Park has a rainy season extends from the end of April to early December.

Some towns close to the park include  Llorona, Manuel Antonio, Naranjito, Damas, Cerros, Corea, Cerro Nara and Quepos, this area was an important export point for the country’s banana production in the past history.

Manuel Antonio National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Videos: Coco Island National Park | Coco Island Marine and Land Conservation Area | “World Heritage Site” Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on December 4, 1997.

On the list for 2009 vote to be one of the new 7 wonders of the world.
 
Location: Pacific Ocean, 650 kilometers Southwest of Puntarenas and 532 kilometers Southwest of Cabo Blanco.

Because of its location on the East Tropical Pacific, it is considered a natural laboratory for the study of evolution. 

Coco Island National Park is often hidden behind fog and rain; it rains almost permanently, except during a short dry season between January and March.

Coco Island National Park is also a renowned dive destination and a gathering point for massive shools of Hammerhead sharks because of it's magnetic fields.


AKA Cocos Island, Isle de Cocos

Coco Island National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Irazu Volcano National Park, Central Volcanic Mountain Range Conservation Area <br />
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Location: Central Volcanic Mountain Range, 52 kilometers Northeast of the city of San Jose and 31 kilometers Northeast of the city of Cartago. 

 The Irazu Volcano ,  Turrialba Volcano, along with the Talamanca mountain range, form Costa Rica’s volcanic plutonic arc.

Irazu volcano has mass estimated at approximately 500 km3. Its formation dates to the last 140 thousand years, which makes it relatively recent.
 
Irazu Volcano National Park has a semi-arid environment and cold temperatures typical of high elevations, and numerous craters at its peak.

Irazu Volcano forms part of the Central Volcanic Mountain Range, an axis that encompasses other active volcanoes in the country |  Poas, Barva and Turrialba.

Irazu Volcano National Park is the highest volcano in Costa Rica and, is one of the best known because it is easy toget to fron San Jose and close to Cartago. On a clear day it is possible to see both the Caribbean 
 and Pacific coastlines.

Irazu Volcano National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Gandoca-Manzanillo, National Wildlife RefugenLa Amistad Conservation Area, Caribbean Sector<br />
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Location: Limon province, Talamanca canton, Sixaola district, 70 km. from the city of Limon. 

Gandoca-Manzanillo, National Wildlife Refuge marine-coastal environments include coral reefs, sand beaches, fossil reef cliffs, estuaries, mangrove swamps, soft beds, rock platforms and beds of marine phanerogams.

The only natural population of mangrove swamp oysters on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast exists in this swamp. 

Mixed refuge, 80% is private property and the rest state property. It protects a variety of wetlands (holillo swamps, mangrove swamps, swamp forests, lagoons), algae and coral reefs unique to the country, turtle spawning (leatherback, loggerhead, hawksbill and green turtles) and beautiful beaches. Included in the RAMSAR list of wetlands of world importance.

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Corcovado National Park, Osa Conservation Area<br />
Location: Western sector of the Osa peninsula, on the Southern extreme of the province of Puntarenas 
 
Importance: Corcovado is one of the protected areas with the highest biodiversity in Costa Rica, where research regarding the structure and functioning of tropical ecosystems and their relations can be carried out.<br />
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  Corcovado National Park area is on Costa Rica’s most ancient lands. Along with Burica point, Santa Elena and Nicoya, they form what is called the external arc of the Southern part of Central America. The park area probably originated as part of a volcanic island that emerged during the Cretaceous Age

Corcovado National Park

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Costa Rica Travel Video: Chirripo National Park | La Amistad Conservation Area<br /><br />
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Location: Talamanca Mountain Range, 20 kilometers Northwest of San Isidro  

Chirripo National Park is part of the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area, and, along with Tapanti National Park, Hitoy-Cerere Biological Reserve and La Amistad International Park, forms the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, declared as such in 1982 and ascended to the category of World Heritage Site in 1983. It is Costa Rica’s highest mountain, with moorland and environments of glacier origin unique in the country.

This area has seen recurrent glaciations, especially of the alpine type, that have covered the mountain’s highest areas.

Chirripo National Park

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Carara National Park  Central Pacific Conservation Area<br />
 
During the Pre-Columbian Period, the territory where Carara National Park is now located was inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Chorotega and Huetar groups. 

Carara is located on the external arc of the Costeña mountain range. Most of the rocks are from the ocean cortex and have been placed on the continent by the movements of the Cocos and Caribbean plates.

Carara National Park is approximately three million years old and is formed by three units: the alluvial plain, the rounded hills and the steep mountains.

Carara National Park

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