Tortuguero

Tortuguero is an area of ​​great importance for its remnants of tropical wet forest, where there are many rivers, canals and lagoons, which are used by both residents and tourists to navigate the park, where nature lovers can admire the lush flora and fauna.
The park includes the terrestrial and marine area. The reason for its creation was the green turtle protection, since this area is the most important spawning in the western Caribbean.
One of its main attractions is the nesting of sea turtles, as the giant leatherback, green turtle, brown loggerhead and hawksbill turtle. All of them endangered.
Its Importance:
It is an area of ​​great importance for its remnants of Tropical Very Humid Forest that just 50 years ago covered practically the entire Northeast.
One reason for its creation was the protection of the green turtle, as it is the most important area of ​​the entire western half of the Caribbean for spawning. Other species of sea turtles that nest on the beach are the leatherback and the hawksbill.
The park is crossed by a natural system of lagoons and waterways of great scenic beauty and habitat for species of tortoises, the manatee, crocodile, a large variety of crustaceans and some 52 species of fish in water sweet, including Gaspar fish.
It was created to protect the flora and fauna of this region, and to facilitate research, scientific studies and provide environmental education.
Its annual average temperature is 26 ° C.
Tortuguero is one of the rainiest areas of the country, between 5,000 and 6,000 mm per year. We can distinguish two types of rain: local downpours of short duration are the most frequent, and the Caribbean temporal characteristic that last up to 15 days. The latter are caused by winds from the north and northwest.
In this place, there are many rivers, canals and lagoons, which are used by both residents and tourists to navigate the park, where nature lovers can admire the lush flora and fauna.
One of its main attractions is the nesting of sea turtles, as the giant leatherback, green turtle, brown loggerhead and hawksbill turtle, which is the less size and is considered endangered by the value of its shell, used in crafts.
There are three life zones: tropical wet forest, montane wet forest transition to basal and rainforest. Includes eight types of associations (trees, shrubs and herbs) and three smaller associations (mostly herbs). The coastal vegetation dominated by grasses, moist forest with plenty of vertical, dense and diverse understory characterized by ferns, palms white and several species of Annonaceae; forests on hills, the yolillales, consisting mainly of raffia palm and located in the central sector of the park, herbaceous swamps formed by herbaceous plants up to 2 feet tall and herbaceous communities on floating vegetation gaps as choreja or water lily, are some of the most outstanding plant associations park.

The most characteristic species of flora are the male cedar, the hawk, the pylon, the javillo black, golden fruit, the manu, the boiler, camphor, canfín, the cant, the raffia palm, palm suita, the royal palm and choreja or water lily. The choreja way sometimes so compact masses that can impede navigation.
The fauna is rich and diverse. Among the most prominent are the tapir, jaguar, ocelot, peccary, howler monkey, the monkey-faced, red or spider monkeys, sloths, tepescuinte, the coati, raccoon, hammers, otter, tolomuco, the fisherman bat is one of the largest in the country and feeds on fish you catch with his strong legs and claws as it passes over the surface of the water surplus; Frog calf reticulated glass frog whose internal organs are seen through its transparent skin, the red poison dart frog or toad, whose skin is toxic.
Some of the birds are green macaw protect endangered species, the peacock, the turkey vulture, the black hawk the orioles violaceous trogon montezuma. Furthermore, the leatherback, hawksbill and green turtles, black tortoise turtle is very common in the canals from Moin to Tortuguero.

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