An old map card of Isla del Coco. Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. The entirety of Cocos Island has been designated a Costa Rican National Park since 1978, and has no permanent inhabitants other than Costa Rican park rangers. The underwater world of the national park has become famous due to the attraction it holds for divers, who rate it as one of the best places in the world to view large pelagic species such as sharks, rays, tuna and dolphins.
The Isla del Coco National Park, located in the Pacific Ocean, was declared in 1997 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, due to its unparalleled natural beauty and biological richness. Its limits extend 12 nautical miles around the terrestrial zone of the island, covering an extension of 2,071 km2 of marine area, and 24 km2 of terrestrial area. Since the end of the 16th century, it was a place of refuge, rest and supply of pirates, corsairs and whalers who travelled the Pacific coast of Spanish America.
Unesco: Cocos Island National Park
Many thanks Aloy and Edu!
Date: March 22
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