amistad

La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
related: Costa Rica, Panama

Located in the Talamanca Range

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World Heritage
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/205 The Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park extends along the border between Panama and Costa Rica. The transboundary property covers large tracts of the highest and wildest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America and is one of that region's outstanding conservation areas. The Talamanca Mountains contain one of the major remaining blocks of natural forest in Central America with no other protected area complex in Central America containing a comparable altitudinal variation. The property has many peaks exceeding 3,000 m.a.s.l. on both sides of the border, including Cerro Chirripo, the highest elevation in Costa Rica and all of southern Central America at 3,819 m.a.s.l. The surface area of the property 570,045 hectares, of which 221,000 hectares are on the Panamanian side. The beautiful and rugged mountain landscape harbours extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Pre-ceramic archaeological sites indicate that the Talamanca Range has a history of many millennia of human occupation. There are several indigenous peoples on both sides of the border within and near the property. In terms of biological diversity, there is a wide range of ecosystems, an unusual richness of species per area unit and an extraordinary degree of endemism.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Amistad_International_Park

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.protectedplanet.net/talamanca-range-la-amistad-reserves-la-amistad-national-park-world-heritage-site http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/international/pdfs/WorldHeritageDesignationPapers.pdf