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Size: 6.8,
80 & 3.8 hectares, respectively
Distance from San José: 118 kilometers via road &
boat.
Trails: On Guayabo Island.
Dry Season: January through March.
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These four islands -negritos
are two- are located on the Gulf of Nicoya. The
reason for setting them aside as biological reserves was
to preserve the large population of sea birds, together
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| Guayabo is an imposing
mound that towers 50 meters high. Its mostly composed
of sedimentary rock between 60-80 million years old.
The vegetation that covers the island consists of shrubs,
small plants and thorn bushes. The wildlife, except
for small insects and crustaceans like crabs, is exclusively
made up of birds, including the brown pelican, frigate
birds, laughing gulls and boobies. |
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Pajaros Island
is almost completely round and dome-shaped. It's
composed of the same kind of sandstone and luttie as Guayabo
Island. The vegetation consists of a low-growing
forest and patches of second-growth grass. The predominant
species are guava, crown fig and stinking toe. Resident
animals include rock oysters, crustaceans like barnacles,
and birds outcasted from other groups. |
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| Negritos Islands are
composed of basalts that belong to the Nicoya Complex.
They are covered with semi-deciduous forest in which predominant
species are frangipani, spiny cedar and gumbo-limbo.
Monkey's ladder, a medical creeper is found in abundance
here. Some of the animals that live in this island
are the raccoon, parrots, doves, hermit crabs (which are
very numerous), brown pelicans and oysters. There
some populations of dolphin tuna and mackerel around the
island as well. |
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