Golfito National Wildlife Refuge
Size: 2,810 hectares.
Dry season: January to March.
Distance from San José: 342 kilometers.
Camping: Permitted.
Trails: Yes.
The Golfito Refuge is located in a rugged wilderness with very heavy rainfall. The site was a series of hard basalt that formed 50-65 million years old.
The forest is thick in the refuge, very evergreen. A fairly common palm tree that grows here is the black palm. There is also a botanical raruty found here, the quira (Carydaphnopsis burgeri), a tree that belongs to the Lauraceae family, a very primitive plants.
This refuge have many resident mammals, the collared peccary is a very social animal that lives in herds. The agouti is a rodent of the same family as the paca and its useful disseminating seeds of plants. There are also coatis, rats, raccoons and some reptiles such as frogs and snakes.
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