Corcovado Jungle Trekking – Costa Rica

Posted on November 18, 2019

Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica is one of the most remote national parks in the Americas and is home to pristine waters and a jungle teeming with exotic wildlife.

Located on Costa Rica’s remote Osa Peninsula along the Pacific Ocean, Corcovado National Park was dubbed by National Geographic as “the most biologically intense place on Earth in terms of biodiversity.”

At 424 square kilometres (164 square miles), Corcovado is the largest national park in Costa Rica and protects about a third of the Osa Peninsula. It is also the largest primary forest on the American Pacific coastline.

Here you will find an impressively diverse array of 13 major ecosystems including lowland rain forest, highland cloud forest, jolillo forest (palm swamp), mangrove swamps, as well as coastal marine and beach habitats.

The park is home to an impressive 500 tree species, 400 species of birds (including 16 different hummingbirds and the largest number of scarlet macaws anywhere in Central America), more than 100 species of butterflies, at least 10,000 species of other insects, 28 species of lizards, 40 species of frogs, many species of snakes, as well as mammals such as the Baird’s tapir, the rare harpy eagle, scarlet macaws, jaguar, puma, red-backed squirrel monkeys, sloths, white-lipped peccaries, and the list goes on and on.

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