Carara National Park

Carara National Park ( Carara means in the language of Huetar Indian crocodile ) is located on the coastal road Costanera Sur on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. He was Carara Biological Reserve in 1978 and declared a National Park in 1998.

The National Park is about 90 kilometers from the capital San José and about 80 kilometers from the more southern Manuel Antonio National Park.

The area begins on the banks of the River Tarcoles, has an area of about 4700 acres and includes five vegetation zones. Most of the park consists of densely grown primary forest, it is located in the northern part of dry forest and rain forest in the southern part. Therefore, the area is also referred to as transition forest. The annual rainfall is about 3000 mm.

Special representatives of the fauna are pointed crocodiles on the banks of the Río Tarcoles and the endangered Scarlet Macaws ( Scarlet Macaw ) whose main breeding place is the National Park. Furthermore you can find anteaters, agoutis, ocelots, spider monkeys, poison dart frogs and about 20 different types of poisonous snakes and spoonbills, storks, darters, trogons, and toucans motmots

The park has about 15 sites from 2000 years of Indian history, so it is even with archaeologists of interest.