Central Region National Parks
This Conservation Area is located in the center of the country, almost entirely formed by the Central Volcanic Mountain Range. Protects 25 protected wild areas. It presents a great diversity of natural ecosystems originated by the variety of climates, altitudes and irregular topography.
It also has more than 250,000 hectares of forests, which play a fundamental role in the protection of water resources, basic for the human and socio-economic development of the cities that inhabit it.
Barbilla National Park
This national park protects 11´938 hectares (29´500 acres) of mostly untouched humid lowland rain...
Chirripó National Park
Chirripó National Park is home to Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Mt. Chirripó, which rises to 3´8...
Tapantí National Park
The Tapantí National Park protects large forested areas in the northern Talamanca Mountain Range,...
La Cangreja National Park
At the end of the 19th century, the area around the town of Puriscal, in west-central Costa Rica,...
Turrialba Volcano National Park
The Turrialba Volcano National Park is located by the town of Turrialba at the southeast end of t...
Braulio Carrillo National Park
Named after Costa Rica’s third president, Dr. Braulio Carrillo, this national park is located onl...
Poás Volcano National Park
The Poás Volcano National Park is located on the Continental Divide of Costa Rica in the Central ...
Juan Castro Blanco National Park
Located northwest of the Central Valley, the Juan Castro Blanco National Park protects mid-elevat...
Irazú Volcano National Park
This park is located northeast of the city of Cartago.
The Irazu Volcano has a long history o...
