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ECOLOGICAL SANCTUARIES

Costa Rica
(On Quetzal’s dominions)

Rain Forest Aerial Tram Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio

Preservation Areas

    As data from the Conservation Areas National System (SINAC), Costa Rica has 123 State wild areas, distributed in National Parks, Biological Reserves, Forestall Reserves, Protective Zones, Wildlife Refugees, “Humedales” and a National Monument; besides the particular reserves as the worldwide known Reserve: Bosque Nubloso Monte Verde, at Santa Elena.
Here follows a relation of some protected areas in Costa Rica:
    - Braulio Carrillo National Park (45.899 ha);
    - Rain Forest Aerial Tram (500 ha);
    - Carrara Biological Reserve (4.700 ha);
    - Manuel Antonio National Oark (683ha);
    - Tortuguero National Park (110.947ha);
    - Bosque Nubloso Monte Verde Reserve, in Santa Elena (10.000ha),
    - Quepos Swamp (4.700 ha).
There is also the Biosphere Reserve La Amistad- 248.337 ha, forming an ecological corridor with Guatemala.

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