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...more
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 Cocosless