A waterfall in Costa Rica

The Cordillera de Talamanca is a range of mountains that lies on the border between Costa Rica and Panama. Much of the range and the area around it is included in the La Amistad International Park, which also is shared between the two countries. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 671 KB) Description: This waterfall is on the Rio Savegre just below San Gerardo de Dota in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica File links The following pages link to this file: Costa Rica ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 671 KB) Description: This waterfall is on the Rio Savegre just below San Gerardo de Dota in the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica File links The following pages link to this file: Costa Rica ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Of course it can get quite misty in a cloud forest Photograph by Dirk van der Made The La Amistad International Park, or in spanish , formerly the La Amistad National Park, is an international peace park in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica (Caribbean La Amistad...

This range contains the highest peaks of Costa Rica and Panama the Cerro Chirripó at 3,819 metres, and the more accessible second highest peak, Cerro de la Muerte. Much of the Caribbean areas of the range are still unexplored. Cerro Chirripó is the highest mountain in Costa Rica, with an altitude of 3,819 metres. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... Cerro de la Muerte is the second highest peak in Costa Rica. ...

The range is covered by the Talamancan montane forests to elevations of approximately 3000 meters. Above 3000 meters, the forests transition to enclaves of sub-páramo, a sort of shrub and dwarf bamboo Chusquea dominated scrub, above 3,400 m this becomes Costa Rican páramo, a tropical alpine grassland. The sub-páramo and páramo vegetation are subject to regular frosts at night, temperatures at 3200 m reaching -5 Celsius. The Talamancan montane forests are a montane tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Costa Rica and Panama. ... The Costa Rican páramo, also known as the Talamanca páramo, is a montane grassland and shrubland of Costa Rica and western Panama. ...

The range is of global importance as it is a centre of endemnism for many plant and animal groups and as an important habitat for many large mammals (Baird's Tapir, Puma, Jaguar) and birds that are now threatened in much of their range.

Coordinates: 9°30′N, 83°40′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...