National Parks of Costa Rica Eleven habitats have been found and identified in Tortuguero. Some, such as lakes Swamps forest and Hollis forest, etc. Tortuguero is one of the regions with the heaviest rainfall in the country (apro. 5500 mm. Per year) and is one of the wildness areas with the greatest biological variety. To date, 11 habitats have been identified in the park. The most important are littoral woodland where gramineous and cyperaceous plant and coconut palms are predominant, berm, high rain forest where crabwood , banak and Santa Maria grow slope forest made up of trees such as the wild tamarind an bully tree. There is an abundance and variety of wildlife, especially with regard to monkeys, fish, anurans and 309 species of birds. Some mammals that make their homes in the park are Tapir (Tapirus bairdi), jaguar (Felis onca), ocelot, spider monkey, howler monkey. A natural network of scenic and navigable waterways crosses the park from southeast to northwest. These channels and marshes are the habitat of 7 species of land turtle, which can be seen sunning themselves on logs in the middle of the water or on the islands of floating vegetation. They also shelter the West Indian manatee, one of the most endangered Caribbean species, crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus), a great variety of crustaceans, and about 30 species of freshwater fish, including the gar (Atractosteus tropicus), considered to be a living fossil, and bull shark (Carchahinus leucas) which can grow up to 3 meters long. The geomorphology of the park consists of a vast floodplain formed by a coalescence of deltas, which filled part of the ancient Nicaraguan trench. The alluvial plain is only broken in the west by Sierpe Peaks, which is 300 meters high and which are part of the remains of a small archipelago of volcanic origin that once existed in that area. Tortuguero National Park resides just south of the village by the same name. Accessible either by National Parks of Costa Rica

Eleven habitats have been found and identified in Tortuguero. Some, such as lakes Swamps forest and Hollis forest, etc.

Tortuguero is one of the regions with the heaviest rainfall in the country (apro. 5500 mm. Per year) and is one of the wildness areas with the greatest biological variety. To date, 11 habitats have been identified in the park. The most important are littoral woodland where gramineous and cyperaceous plant and coconut palms are predominant, berm, high rain forest where crabwood , banak and Santa Maria grow slope forest made up of trees such as the wild tamarind an bully tree.

There is an abundance and variety of wildlife, especially with regard to monkeys, fish, anurans and 309 species of birds. Some mammals that make their homes in the park are Tapir (Tapirus bairdi), jaguar (Felis onca), ocelot, spider monkey, howler monkey.

A natural network of scenic and navigable waterways crosses the park from southeast to northwest. These channels and marshes are the habitat of 7 species of land turtle, which can be seen sunning themselves on logs in the middle of the water or on the islands of floating vegetation. They also shelter the West Indian manatee, one of the most endangered Caribbean species, crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus), a great variety of crustaceans, and about 30 species of freshwater fish, including the gar (Atractosteus tropicus), considered to be a living fossil, and bull shark (Carchahinus leucas) which can grow up to 3 meters long.

The geomorphology of the park consists of a vast floodplain formed by a coalescence of deltas, which filled part of the ancient Nicaraguan trench. The alluvial plain is only broken in the west by Sierpe Peaks, which is 300 meters high and which are part of the remains of a small archipelago of volcanic origin that once existed in that area.

Tortuguero National Park resides just south of the village by the same name. Accessible either by

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