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Costa Rica is more than that

By: Costa Rica Real Estate, Thu Apr 22nd, 2010

Costa Rica is an exceptional country, a special shelter life, and full of natural surprises in the territory of 51. 100 km, representing 0.03 percent of the planet's surface, is approximately 5 percent of global biodiversity, also their community retirement The vegetation varies according to altitude above the ground. In this sense we can distinguish the rainforest on the coast of northeast and south, where rainfall is more abundant, showing a growth of large trees. In the mountainous area of the Atlantic, between 800 and 1500 m. above the sea, the vegetation is characteristic of tropical rainforest, while the dry is dominant in the central plateau, where trees grow less, and instead a proliferation of grasses and herbaceous plants. he savanna is located in Potrero Grande and in parts of Guanacaste, mainly in retirement communities In the higher regions, dominated by mixed tropical forest. With respect to Costa Rican fauna, can be said to belong exclusively to the geographical area called neotropical, covering South America, Central part of Mexico and the Caribbean. In Costa Rica, retirement is extraordinarily large and diverse, the species that live there, and depending on the area you have the possibility to observe, Quetzales, 5 or 6 species of toucans, tapirs, deer, anteaters, sloths, monkeys, coatis, otters, foxes, Jaguares , ocelots and pumas, among many other animals Lapas. In addition to those species, wilderness areas host around 13,000 species of plants, over 2,000 species of butterflies, 4,500 night, 163 of amphibians, 220 reptiles, 1,600 fish from freshwater and saltwater