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Veragua Rainforest

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Veragua Rainforest is the first day tour destination that will offer a unique educational jungle experience to cruise passengers that arrive at Puerto Limón, Costa Rica.  Activities offered at the park will include visiting a frog, butterfly, and snake farm, hiking on suspended bridges through the jungle and waterfalls, and soaring through the forest canopy on a gondola tour.

Veragua is located in a buffer zone of La Amistad International Park, one of The Nature Conservancy’s priority action sites for biological diversity conservation in Costa Rica .  La Amistad is the core component of the Amistad Biosphere bi-national World Heritage Site located in Costa Rica and Panama that protects the largest area of undisturbed highland watersheds and forests in southern Central America.   

Located on a 1,000 hectare tract of land previously used for logging, Veragua Rainforest will be constructed on 77 hectares of secondary forest and will set aside the remainder of the tract for conservation, including 800 hectares of primary forest. 

The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), a world renowned Costa Rican research institute on biological diversity (www.inbio.org), has partnered with Veragua.  At the project site, INBio will establish its first biological station on the Atlantic Coast and provide educational instruction to visitors.  Moreover, a percentage of the park’s entry fee will go to further INBio’s mission.

Limón is one of the poorest areas of Costa Rica , with an unemployment rate close to 18 percent.  Veragua Rainforest will not only generate employment opportunities, but will serve as an engine for growth in the region.  

EcoEnterprises Fund co-financed this investment with the project principals, Verde Ventures and a local bank.

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