Cocos Island

Puntarenas Province · Costa Rica

Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Photo: J RAWLS, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
June to November
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An uninhabited island far off the Pacific coast, protected as a national park and World Heritage Site. Reachable only by multi-day liveaboard, it is famed for its dense schools of hammerhead sharks.

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