| The
park
is located in the pacific coast, in the Península de Osa, in the province
of Puntarenas. It was establish by means of Executive Decree No. 5357-A,
October 24, 1975. It has an area of 54. 538 hectares in the land part
and 2.400 in the sea part.
Corcovado
is located in the life zone that correspond to the very humid Tropical
forest in the south pacific of Costa Rica and you can be sure that
no other wild area in the country protects plants and animal as this
park. This wild area is considered an excellent life laboratory, in
which you can study the structure and function of the tropical ecosystems
and the relationship between them.
The
very humid forests of Corcovado, are some of the last places that
still maintain the ecosystem of the very humid tropical forests in
the American pacific, with precipitation over 5.000mm annual.
This
park helps the investigation and scientific studies and allows the
environment education.
There
are like 500 species of trees in the whole park, which is equivalent
to the fourth part of all the tree species in Costa Rica. The tropical
rain forests protected in the area, no only constitute the best ecosystem
in the pacific, but the last of them in Central America.
The
flora of the park is constituted in the most by the very humid tropical
forest with the following habitats: The mountain forest, the cloudy
forest, the prairie forest, the swamp forest, the "Yolillal",
the herbaceous swamp, the mangle, the sheer flora and the coast flora.
The
park protects several endangered species like cats, big reptiles,
species of birds of restricted distribution. We know the existence
of 104 mammal species, 367 birds, 117 amphibian and reptiles and 40
species of fresh water fish.
In
the wild life we can be notice the danta, the jaguar, the puma, the
white face monkey, squirrel, congos, and others. This park is one
of the most important conservation areas for the protection of lizards
and crocodiles. |
