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Santa Rosa National Park protects some of the last remaining
tropical dry forest in the world. Guanacaste National Park
was created in 1989 to connect Santa Rosa National Park with
the high elevation cloud forest of Orosi and Cacao volcanoes
and across the continental divide to the Caribbean rainforest
of Northern Costa Rica. The hope is that together these two
parks protect enough land to ensure sufficiently large habitats
for wide-ranging species such as jaguars and mountain lions
while simultaneously creating a biological corridor for birds
and insects to make local seasonal migrations between the
dry forest and the evergreen cloud and rain forests. At the
historic building of “La Casona” the Battle of
Santa Rosa in 1856 took place. The building has been preserved
as a monument and museum. |
