Introducing Manuel Antonio National Park

Though Manuel Antonio National Park is the smallest National Park in entire Costa Rica, yet it has a made a name for itself as the most biologically diverse areas of the world.

It is astounding to note how a meager 683 hectare can encompass the sheer beauty and feature a varied wildlife as Manuel Antonio National Park does.

Manuel Antonio National Park incorporates rainforests, beaches and coral reefs. All these combine to create an appeal that is hard to be ignored.

The beaches of Manuel Antonio National Park are capable of competing with the best beaches in the world.

The white grey sand beaches are fringed with

profuse vegetation and provide unparalleled snorkeling opportunities.You will come across a wide variety of mammals that include the sloths, iguanas, cute squirrel monkeys. Manuel Antonio National Park is also home to colorful tiny crabs.

You will never be short of activities in Manuel Antonio National Park.

You can either tread the trails or engage in whitewater rafting, ocean cruising, horse riding, fishing and kayaking.

The two most popular beaches in Manuel Antonio National Park are the Playa Espadilla Sur and Playa Manuel Antonio. These two beaches are severed from each other by a narrow strip of land.

The Playa Manuel Beach is a spectacular beach that separates the lush forest and the sequestered cove.

Corcovado National Park Costa Rica. Within the park is the drainage of Corcovado Basin, a broad sediment-filled oceanic embayment between Punta Llorona and Punta Río Claro (near Sirena), which extends inland from the Pacific Ocean 2-10 km eastward.

Deciduous forests, mangrove swamps, rainforests, herbaceous swamps, cloud forests, riparian forests, swamp forests and coral reefs are just some of the many habitats that are protected by the national parks and reserves of Costa Rica.

Areas of geological and geophysical interests, hot springs, caves and relict mountains as the result of plate tectonics setting; areas of historic and archaeological interest, such as battlefields and pre-Columbian settlements,areas of scenic beauty, such as beaches and waterfalls and areas of conservational importance, such as islands where the brown pelican and magnificent frigatebird nest, or enclaves with the last remaining stands of Mesoamerican dry forest, or beaches where huge sea turtles flock, all fall under the protection of the national parks and reserves in Costa Rica.

The basin's low plain is dominated by creeks and meandering rivers, and is rimmed except to the west by uplands, which increase in altitude and irregular relief from an undulating plateau in the northwest part of the park (north of Llorona), to 2,444 feet in the southeast on the peninsula's highest cerros, Rincón and Mueller.

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