Corcovado National Park
Is a national park on the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica, which is part of the Osa Conservation Area. It was established on 24 October 1975, and encompasses an area of 424 Km²(164 mi²). It is the largest park in Costa Rica and protects about a third of the Osa Peninsula.
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| Corcovado National Park Beach |
It is widely considered the crown jewel in the extensive system of national parks and biological reserves spread across the country. The ecological variety is quite stunning. Not only is the park very popular with tropical ecologists, a visitor can expect to see an abundance of wildlife.
Description about of Corcovado National Park
The park conserves the largest primary forest on the American Pacific coastline adn one of the few remaining sizeable areas of lowland tropical rainforests in the world. Corcovado is home to a sizable population of the endangered Baird´s Tapir(Tapirus Bairdii), Jaguar(Pantera Onca) and Peccaries(Tayassu Peccary), species that are considered endangered, an contain 140 mammalian species(representing 10 % of mammal species in the Americas). Corcovado even a small population of the very rare Harpy Eagle, which was considered extinct in the area since 1989.
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| Jaguar in Corcovado National Park |
The abundance in wildlife can in part be explained by the variety of vegetation types, at least 13, incluiding montane forest, cloud forest, jolillo forest(palm swamp) and others, together holding over 500 tree species, including purple heart tree, cow tree, poponjoche, nargusta, banak tree and crabwood tree. Another reason for the diversity(as with all of Costa Rica) is that it lies on a north-south corridor for flora an fauna; part of the "land-bridge" and wildlife corridor that links the large continents of North America and South America.
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| Rainforest Corcovado National Park |
Flora and fauna in Corcovado National Park
The high annual rainfall lead to a lot of waterways and lake areas, encouraging the development of forests with rall trees in almost total alternation with other like guayabón, the Espavel and the Male Cedar, all these trees are covered with epiphytes. Develops thus ideal for the development and maintenance of 350 species of birds, 150 species of mammals, over 100 species of reptiles and amphibians and about 5500 insects.
More Pictures of Corcovado National Park
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| Storm in Corcovado |
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| Sloth in Corcovado. |
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| Peccaries |
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| scarlet macaw´s and monkey |
Hotels and others.
For more information to Corcovado National Park you can visit:
Guide for tourist
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