World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica: Cultural Landscape

1 day ago By The Editor

Costa Rica, located in Central America, boasts a rich and diverse cultural landscape shaped by its history, natural beauty, and ethnic diversity. It combines historical influences, vibrant traditions, environmental stewardship, and a love for life, making it a unique and fascinating destination.

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Cocos Island: Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica)

4 years ago By The Editor

Cocos Island lies off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Surrounded by deep waters with counter-currents, Cocos Island National Park is admired by scuba divers for its populations of large marine species.

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Guanacaste Conservation Area (Costa Rica)

4 years ago By The Editor

The Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica contains a mosaic of diverse ecosystems, from the Pacific shores to lowland Caribbean rainforests. It comprises four contiguous protected areas containing critical terrestrial and marine-coastal environments and key habitats.

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La Amistad International Park and Biosphere Reserve (Costa Rica, Panama)

1 year ago By The Editor

La Amistad International Park is a Transboundary Protected Area that extends along the border between Costa Rica and Panama, which, along with the surrounding Biosphere Reserves, preserves a major tract of tropical forest that is known for its extraordinary biodiversity and endemism.

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Los Katíos National Park, World Heritage Site (Colombia)

4 years ago By The Editor

Los Katíos National Park has great biological wealth and holds a privileged role in the South American continent's biogeographical history. An exceptional biological diversity is found in the park, which is home to many threatened animal species as well as many endemic plants.

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Pre-Columbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís, World Heritage Site (Costa Rica)

4 years ago By The Editor

The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres, located on the Diquís Delta. The Pre-Columbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís are physical evidence of pre-Columbian hierarchical societies.