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1. Watercourse. River La Paz. La Paz ( Spanish: "the peace") is a waterfall in central Costa Rica. [1] In Spanish, it is known as Catarata de La Paz. It is 31 kilometres (19 mi) north of Alajuela, between Vara Blanca and Cinchona . The waterfall is located immediately alongside Route 126. The River La Paz forms the waterfall after traversing 8 ...
Location in Costa Rica. Arenal Volcano National Park ( Spanish: Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal) is a Costa Rican national park in the central part of the country, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area. The park encompasses the Arenal Volcano, the most active in the country, which was believed to be dormant until a major eruption in ...
Braulio Carrillo National Park. / 10.1599000°N 83.9744250°W / 10.1599000; -83.9744250. Talamancan montane forests in the park. Braulio Carrillo National Park is a national park in Heredia Province, Cartago Province, Limón Province and San José Province, in central Costa Rica. It is part of the Central Conservation Area .
Piedras Blancas National Park is a national park part of the Osa Conservation Area. It is found in the Puntarenas Province of southern Costa Rica near the town of La Gamba. It protects rainforests and beaches near the Golfo Dulce on the Pacific Coast. It used to operate as part of the Corcovado National Park called the Esquinas Sector from 1991 ...
www .upeace .org. View of Costa Rica Campus. The University for Peace ( UPEACE) is an international university and intergovernmental organization established as a treaty organisation by the United Nations General Assembly in 1980. [ 1] The university offers postgraduate, doctoral, and executive [ 2] programmes related to the study of peace and ...
Turrialba is the second highest volcano in Costa Rica with an elevation of 3,340 m (10,960 ft). The volcano is periodically active. [34] Total: 816,521 ha (2,017,670 acres) (including ocean) The land area of national parks make up 13 percent of the area of Costa Rica and about one-half of the total protected land area in Costa Rica.
The park has a land area of 1,983 ha (4,900 acres) and 25,634 ha (63,340 acres) of water area for a total of 27,587 ha (68,170 acres). Despite being one of the smaller Costa Rican parks in land area, Manuel Antonio is the most popular of the 30 national parks in Costa Rica, visited by 4,388,460 people from 2012 to 2022. [2]
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