Santa Rosa National Park

Santa Rosa National Park is, located in the province of Guanacaste, North Pacific, just 36 km north of the city of Liberia.
It was created by Executive Order No. 1562-A, March 20, 1972. It has a land area of ​​37,117 and 78,000 hectáres has turtles.

It is one of the most historic areas of the country, the house and the stone corrals were the scene of the largest national heroic: The Battle of Santa Rosa on March 20, 1856.

The park is important for the protection of habitats and restaruración the Dry Pacific climatic region known. Naranjo Nancite beaches and scenic beauty are important nesting areas for sea turtles and olive ridley and leatherback.
There in Santa Rosa about ten habitats including deciduous forests, oak forests, evergreen forests, mangrove swamps, coastal forests, scrub forests, beach vegetation and grasslands or savannahs.

The sheets are constituted mainly by the Jaragua grass and scattered trees such as oak oak nance, the wooden or raspaguacal chumico the cornizuelo and gourd. Deciduous forests contain about 240 species of trees and shrubs: guanacaste, national tree, the naked Indian, oak savanna, the chaperno, jobo, pochote the arbutus and gu; unleavened.

In the evergreen forest the dominant species with the medlar, the oak, the tempisque and Aceituno. Wildlife is abundant and diverse. 155 It has been observed espefcies of mammals, more than half are bats, 253 birds, 100 amphibians and reptiles, and more than 10,000 of insects, including some 3,140 species of butterflies and moths.

Among the mammals are the most howler monkey, white-faced monkey, armadillo, sell the dantea, the coati, the Zaino, the highlands, the jaguar and raccoons. The semispinalis mouse is the mammal most abundant of all.

Some of the most striking birds are the magpie, the parakeet frentianaranjada, the red widow, the soterrey matraquero, the cargahuesos, the peacock, the black hawk and the long-tailed manakin.

 

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