| Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge | | colspan="2" Template:Infobox protected area/IUCN | | | | Location: | Costa Rica | | Nearest city: | | | Coordinates: | °′″, °′″ | | Area: | 200,600 acres (812 km²) | | Established: | 1984 | | Visitation: | (in ) | | Governing body: | National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) | Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Tortuguero Conservation Area, in Limón Province in the northeastern part of Costa Rica. It is the second largest rain forest preserve in the country and protects areas that contain hot humid forests, mangroves, canals and marine areas, bounded in part by the San Juan and Colorado rivers, and to the south the Tortuguero National Park. Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ...
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A Wildlife refuge is a geographic territory within which wildlife is protected. ...
Limón is a province of Costa Rica. ...
A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ...
Above and below water view at the edge of the mangal. ...
The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France. ...
Marine is an umbrella term for things relating to the ocean, as with Marine biology, Marine geology, and as a term for a navy, etc. ...
The San Juan River is a 180 kilometer river located in Nicaragua which connects the Caribbean with Lake Nicaragua. ...
Tortuguero National Park is a National Park within the Tortuguero Conservation Area. ...
The area protected has a hot and humid climate with no dry season, and is the habitat of the endangered West Indian Manatee as well as many caymans, crocodiles, and fish. It is also home to a variety of tapirs, jaguars, cougars, monkeys, ocelots, and other mammals. Birds found includes osprey, toucans, cormorants, herons, hawks, and many more. Binomial name Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758 A group of three West Indian manatees. ...
For the overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies, see Cayman Islands For the islands, see Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, or Little Cayman. ...
Genera Mecistops Crocodylus Osteolaemus See full taxonomy. ...
Species Tapirus bairdii Tapirus indicus Tapirus pinchaque Tapirus terrestris Tapirs are large browsing animals, roughly pig-like in shape but with short, prehensile trunks. ...
Binomial name Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large member of the cat family found primarily in the warm regions of the Americas. ...
A Cougar is: an animal, the Puma a helicopter type, the Eurocopter Cougar, with the civilian counterpart called Eurocopter Super Puma an armored military vehicle, the Cougar Hardened Engineer Vehicle, HEV [1] an armored fighting vehicle used by Canadian military, AVGP Cougar an alcoholic drink cougar/coug (2) (slang) an...
For other uses, see Monkey (disambiguation). ...
Binomial name Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) This page is about the animal. ...
Binomial name Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a medium large raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution. ...
Genera Aulacorhynchus Pteroglossus Baillonius Andigena Selenidera Ramphastos For other uses, see Toucan (disambiguation). ...
Genera Nannopterum Phalacrocorax Leucocarbo The Phalacrocoracidae family of birds is represented by about thirty species of cormorants and shags. ...
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The term hawk refers to birds of prey in any of three senses: Strictly, to mean any of the species in the genera Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis, and Megatriorchis. ...
The village of Tortuguero from which the neighbouring Tortuguero National Park got its name is located on the southern border the refuge, and contains two research stations. Tortuguero (translated as Place of Turtles) is a village on the Northern coast of Costa Rica, and also the name of a national park. ...
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