UNESCO brings together World Heritage site managers from Costa Rica and Panama to promote sustainable tourism

Site managers and park rangers from Costa Rica and Panama responsible for the transboundary World Heritage site of Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/La Amistad National Park gathered from 8 to 11 July 2025 to discuss how to enhance sustainable tourism at the site.

Organized in the framework of the UNESCO project ‘Communities for Heritage – Latin America and the Caribbean’, financed by Saudi Arabia, the workshop took place in the Las Cruces Biological Station, located in San Vito de Coto Brus, Costa Rica.

Extending along the border between Panama and Costa Rica, the Talamanca Range–La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park encompasses a vast mountainous wilderness where exceptional biodiversity, wetland ecosystems, and cross-border conservation efforts come together. In addition to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is also recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance - making it one of the most comprehensively protected natural landscapes in Central America.