Transboundary Diagnosis Analysis - Tables
Protected Areas of Costa Rica in the San Juan River Basin

Name

Area in Has

Decree

Date

Guanacaste National Park

34,764

19124

16 Aug 1989

Rincón de la Vieja National Park

14,083

5398

3 Nov 1973

GUANACASTE CONSERVATION AREA

Guanacaste Protective Zone

National Wildlife Refuge. Border Corridor CR-Nic.

 

640

13,826

 

5836-A

 

25 Feb 1976

1994?

ARENAL CONSERVATION AREA

Las Camelias National Wildlife Reserve

Tenorio National Park

Miravalles National Park

Caño Negro National Wildlife Reserve

Arenal-Monteverde Protective Zone

Arenal Fauna Reserve

Arenal Dam Protective Zone

Arenal National Park

Cerro Jardín Fauna Refuge

RNVS Border Corridor CR-Nic.

Los Guatusos Indigenous Reserve

 

68

1,712

12,226

10,258

19,487

5,216

9,248

1,904

1,215

25,932

2,743

 

 

 

 

 

15120-MAG

 

1993

1994

1994

20 Jan 1984

 

 

 

1991

 

1994?

 

CORDILLERA VOLCANICA CENTRAL CONVERVATION AREA

Juan Castro Blanco National Park

Bosque Alegre Wildlife Reserve

Toro River Protective Zone

Poás Volcano National Park

Cordillera Volcánica Central Fauna Reserve

Braulio Carrillo National Park

La Selva Protective Zone

Turrialba Volcano National Park

Guácimo-Pococí Aquifers Protective Zone

San Ramón Protective Zone

TORTUGUERO PLAINS PROTECTIVE AREA

RNVS Border Corridor CR-Nic.

RNVS Barra del Colorado

Tortuguero Protective Zone (Biological Corridor)

Tortuguero National Park

Archie Carr Biological Corridor

Cureña-Cureñita Fauna Refuge

Maquenque Lagoon Marshy Wetlands

Tamborcito Lacustrine Wetlands

 

14,258

846

3,702

5,243

51,748

47,646

4,300

872

4525

 

 

8,851

92,000

10,407

18,946

82

6,712

538

1,684

 

18763-MIR

 

4717

4961-A

8357-A

13459-A

 

17390-MAG

4960-A

 

 

 

16348-MAG

5680-A

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Feb 1989

 

 

23 Dec 1970

26 Jun 1975

5 Mar 1978

31 Mar 1982

 

15 Dec 1986

 

 

1994?

9 Jun 1985

3 Nov 1975

 

 

 

 

 

Source: MIRENEM. National System of Conservation Areas. Wildlife and United Nations General Directorate "List of National Parks" and Protected Areas of the World, Bermúdez and Mena, 1992; Zeledón, 1994. Note: The decrees are surface areas reported are preliminary data.

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