Golfito National Wildlife Refuge
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1,309 hectares Distance from San José: 342 kilometers Trails: Yes. Dry Season: January through March. |
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| The Golfito Refuge lies in a rugged wilderness area with very heavy rains. The terrain was formed by a succession of hard basalts that date 50-65 million years old. |
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The forest in the refuge is thick, very evergreen. A fairly common palm that grows here is the black palm. Also there's a botanical raruty found here, the quira (Carydaphnopsis burgeri), a tree that belongs to the Lauraceae family, a very primitive plant. |
| There are many resident mammals in this refuge, the collared peccary is a highly social animal that lives in herds. the agouti is a rodent that belongs to the same family as the paca and its helpful spreading seeds from plants. There are also raccoons, coati, rats and some reptiles like frogs and snakes. |  |
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