Guanacaste National Park |
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North Pacific |
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Guanacaste |
| Creation Date | Jul-09-1991 |
| Area | 34651 ha |
| Category | National Park |
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Atractions and Services |
| Information | Nature Tours | Picnic Areas |
| Toilets | Research Stations | Water |
| Lodging | Volcanoes | Birds |
| Mamals | Mushrooms | Dry Forest |
| Historic Places |
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Decree |
| D.E. #20516-mirenem Jul-09-1991 | Location |
| Area of Conservation Guanacaste (ACG) | Brief History |
| This park was created the 9 of July of 1991 by means of executive decree no. 20516-mirenem. It has an extension of 34,651 hectáreas, | Detailed Location |
| one is in the province from Guanacaste, North Pacific, 36 kilometers to the north of the city of Liberia | Main Plants |
| By its extension diversity and location the park has a great biological diversity in the forest of volcanos others and cacao excels the epititas plants that will grow on another one without being parasitic and take the humidity from I flooded, you joke and orquídeas also there are ferns and mosses. In this park tempisque are around 3,000 species of plants the species plaintiffs are the Maria the cork oak capulin jicaro giving and the golden fruit. | Main Animals |
| the turkey hen, the finch, oropendo it of montezuma, tucancillo, the king of buzzards, oropopo or owl of eyeglass Excel the diversity of birds among them, the bird bell, the bird sobrilla, the magpie and the cargahuesos among others. Some of the most representative mammals are the tepezcuiente, the deer, the jaguar, cariblanco, puma, the moose, pizote, saíno, the armadillo, toomuco and the sluggish one of two fingers, is great diversity desapos frog salamanders and serpents. | Main Attractions |
| It contains a great tropical distributed ecological diversity in forests very humid tropical cloudy and dry. The park includes near 200 km with volcanic crater beginnings old craters of Golds and Cacao is most prominent in the bulk of golds leaves from the crater is demolished. Between the Orosilito Hill and the Volcano Cacao it is born the Tempisque River that soon altogether on the rivers, Drowned and the Colorado they feed, the Tempisque River the main one of Guanacaste. | Facilities and Services |
| Senderos | Contact |
| Ministry of the Atmosphere and Energy Area of Guanacaste Conservation National Park Guanacaste Tel: (506) 666-5051, 661-8150 Telefax: 666-5020, 661-8151 |
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