Cocos Island National Park
Puntarenas Province · Costa Rica
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- Best time to go
- December–April
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- $$
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The only tropical rainforest island in the eastern Pacific, Cocos lies 550 kilometres off Costa Rica, where it catches the northern equatorial counter-current and becomes a natural laboratory for studying how island and ocean interact. Divers rate its wall-and-cave seascape among the world's finest for watching sharks, rays, tuna and dolphins in numbers. UNESCO inscribed Cocos Island National Park as a natural World Heritage Site in 1997.
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