Golfito National Wildlife Refuge
Size:
1,309 hectares
Distance from San José: 342 kilometers
Trails: Yes.
Dry Season: January through March. |
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| The Golfito Refuge lies in a rugged wilderness area
with very heavy rains. The terrain was formed by a succession
of hard basalts that date 50-65 million years old. |
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The forest in the refuge is thick, very evergreen.
A fairly common palm that grows here is the black palm. Also
there's a botanical raruty found here, the quira (Carydaphnopsis burgeri),
a tree that belongs to the Lauraceae family, a very primitive plant. |
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| There are many resident mammals in
this refuge, the collared peccary is a highly social animal that lives
in herds. the agouti is a rodent that belongs to the same family
as the paca and its helpful spreading seeds from plants. There
are also raccoons, coati, rats and some reptiles like frogs and snakes. |
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