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Area de Conservación Guanacaste

Costa Rica
Date of Inscription: 1999
Extension: 2004
Criteria: (ix)(x)
Guanacaste and Alajuela provinces
N10 51 W85 37
Ref: 928bis

Brief Description

The Area de Conservación Guanacaste (inscribed in 1999), was extended with the addition of a 15,000 ha private property, St Elena. It contains important natural habitats for the conservation of biological diversity, including the best dry forest habitats from Central America to northern Mexico and key habitats for endangered or rare plant and animal species. The site demonstrates significant ecological processes in both its terrestrial and marine-coastal environments.
Interior of 40m tall old growth evergreen forest at 1200m elevation just below the cloud line in fig. 11, on the upper western slopes of Volcan Cacao. Photograph taken in March (dry season) | Nomination File © UNESCO More pictures ...
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