Carara National Park

Carara National Park is located after by hand left the Tárcoles River in the highway that goes towards Jacó and Manuel Antonio. The reserve protects a very interesting forest of transition between the dry tropical forest and the tropical very humid forest. It is an excellent place for the observation of birds and frequently animals in their footpaths can be seen. The reserve is important for the survival of guacamaya red (lapa) that is in extinction danger. These birds sleep in manglares and in the morning the Carara forest of and environs go to. In afternoon between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. they return to manglares to sleep. This he is one of great the attractiveness of Carara, aside from being a very interesting and exuberante forest. The reserve has 2 footpaths, and the main one is next to the house of guardaparques where it is paid to enter $ 7,00 by person. In this place the car without no problem in the maintenance can be left. 

 

Many endangered and threatened species live and breed here, like the American crocodile and the Purple Heart tree. Carara is also considered a sanctuary of the rare and beautiful Scarlet Macaw.

The word “Carara” is an indigenous term,reputedly meaning "river of crocodiles". The area in which the reserve is located was occupied by an indigenous culture that is thought to have been allied with groups located in the Central Valley from 300 b.c. to 1500 a.c. Extensive tomb sites have been excavated here, and the burial places of people of high status are remarkably complex.