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Cabo Blanco Absolute
Reserve
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Size: 1,172
hectares
Distance from San José: 300 Kilometers
Trails: Yes.
Dry Season:November through April.
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| Cabo
Blanco Biological Reserve, established in 1963, is the
only government protected area created before the inception
of the park service in 1970 that has survived to this
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The reserve
occupies the southernmost tip of the Nicoya peninsula
and protects the largest tract of an extremely important
example of mixed evergreen and deciduous moist tropical
forest in the area. |
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home to many rare and threatened species, including
curassows, crested guan, brocket deer and jaguarundi,
along with some more common species like howler monkeys,
raccoons and kinkajous. There are excellent tide pools
along the coast, and Isla Cabo Blanco is a very important
seabird-breeding site. |
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