Isla Bolaños National Wildlife
Refuge
Size:
25 hectares.
Distance from San José: 281 kilometers.
Trails: Around the island.
Dry Season: January through March. |
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| Bolaños Island is an oval-shaped
rocky mound, 81 meters high, that lies 1,5 kilometers off Punta
Descartes, on the northwest region of the country. Its rugged terrain
consists of numerous layers of sedimentary rock that are approximately
40 million years old. |
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| The scarce vegetation is made up of stunted forest,
which is very thick and difficult to penetrate. It grows almost
two meters high on very rock soils with very little organic material.
The forest, which completely looses its leaves during the dry season,
consists mainly of paira and some medium-sized trees, such as fraginipani
and lancewood. |
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Bolaños is especially important for the conservation
of seabirds. It protects one of the few known nesting sites
in the country for colonies of brown pelican and also it's the only
nesting site discovered to date for the magnificent frigatebird. |
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| There is a white, sandy beach at the eastern tip of
the island with mounds of seashells and clams. At low tide
its possible to walk round the island and gives visitors a chance
to glance at several species of crab that live and mate here, specially
the large sized land crab. |
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