Carara National Park

The Carara National Park in the Huetar indigenous language means “River of alligators”, it has the only transition forest in the Central Pacific, which translates into diversity of flora and fauna, where species typical of dry and humid forests converge.

The Carara National Park was created as a Carara Biological Reserve on April 26, 1978, later it changed its management category to a national park on November 18, 1998. It is located between the provinces of Puntarenas and San José, occupying the cantons of Garabito and Turrubares, as well as the districts of Tárcoles and Carara.

Another point that makes this park unique is that it is the first to have a universal access trail, where visitors can live the experience of being inside the forest, discover endemic species such as the Cafecillo (Erythrochiton gymnanthus), trees large and see the relationship that exists between some of the species.

You can find around 480 species of trees and shrubs. In addition, there are about 29 species of flora between endemic and rare. The fauna is integrated by species of the most varied groups. You can identify about 112 species of mammals, 420 species of birds.