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TORTUGUERO AREA

 

Tortuguero National Park, "Costa Rica's Amazon", is one of the country's most popular eco-tourism destinations due to its extraordinary scenic beauty and its rich biodiversity. The canals, rivers, beaches, and lakes of this area are a working laboratory of rain forest, freshwater, and marine biology.

 

It is located in the North Atlantic region and you can get there by boat or by plane from San Jose.  However, most lodges in the area offer all-inclusive packages from San Jose which include land and boat transportation.

 

Tortuguero and the North Caribbean are formed by a great plain which floods with the water that descends from the rivers of the Central Mountain Range, such as the Pacuare, Reventazon and Parismina.

 

It has extended areas covered with tropical forests, a habitat for many species some in danger of extinction such as; Red frogs, green macaw, Baird's Tapir, Jaguars, and marine turtles. There are places to stay in town or along the canals from very basic to almost luxurious.

 

You will be amazed by the beauty of these canals, rivers and lagoons, which were used before by foreign companies as the transport means for extracting wood, bananas, cocoa and other products and which nowadays lead you to one of the most bio diverse places in the world.

In one of nature's most amazing spectacles, Leatherback turtles nest along the beaches from February to May and Green Turtles from July to October.

 
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