Guanacaste National Park, in northern Costa Rica, was created by executive decree in 1989, partly through the advocacy of ecologist Daniel Janzen, and formally established on July 9, 1991, covering about 340 square kilometers between the Orosi and Cacao volcanoes and the Interamerican Highway. The IUCN category II park forms part of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste World Heritage Site and was designed as a corridor letting species migrate seasonally between dry forest and rain forest, sheltering some 140 mammal species, over 300 bird species, and more than 10,000 insect species. It also contains the El Pedregal archaeological site, with petroglyphs dated between 500 BC and 1500 AD.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyNational System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) 1 Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Governing Body
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1. Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica) (Wikipedia)
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is a national park in northern Costa Rica
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was created in 1989, partially due to the campaigning and fund-raising of Dr.
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Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste is a national park in northern Costa Rica.
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National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC)
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The IUCN category II park forms part of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste World Heritage Site and was designed as a corridor letting species migrate seasonally between dry forest and rain forest, sheltering some 140 mammal species, over 300 bird species, and more than 10,000 insect species.
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National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC)
On Continent: North America, Lead paragraph names Costa Rica; continent follows from the atlas record for Costa Rica
Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste is a national park in northern Costa Rica
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