La Amistad National Park

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La Amistad National Park
National Park at Santa Fe
National Park at Santa Fe
La Amistad National Park (Panama)
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Coordinates: 9 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 83 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.
Location: Panama , Costa Rica
Specialty: Highest mountain: Cerro Kamuk 3549 m
Surface: 4188 km²
Founding: 1982 (Costa Rica), 1988 (Panama)
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The La Amistad National Park ( Spanish Parque Internacional La Amistad ) is located in the border region between the countries of Costa Rica and Panamá . Around 199,000 hectares of the park are in Costa Rica and 207,000 hectares in Panamá. The highest point in the national park is the 3549 m high Cerro Kamuk .

The national park consists mainly of rain and cloud forests . To date, over 3000 plant species have been identified in the park area. The park is home to 600 species of birds, more than 300 species of amphibians and reptiles, and 120 species of fish. It houses over 600 different orchids .

The park was created on the basis of a joint declaration of intent by the two presidents of Costa Rica and Panama in 1979. The Costa Rican part of the park was established in 1982 as a UNESCO biosphere reserve and in 1983, together with areas in the adjacent Talamanca mountain range, was included in the UNESCO list. World Heritage added. The Panamanian part was created in 1988 and was added to the World Heritage status in 1990 as an extension.

Picture gallery

  • La Amistad

  • Jungle path

Web links

Commons : La Amistad International Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Parque Internacional La Amistad. Costa Rica National Parks website, accessed December 22, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Parque Internacional La Amistad. ( Memento of December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Ministry of Environment of Panama, accessed on December 22, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ^ La Amistad International Park. Private website Hallo-CostaRica.com, accessed December 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Monro et al. : A first checklist to the vascular plants of La Amistad International Park (PILA), Costa Rica-Panama . In: Phytotaxa. Vol. 322, No. 1, 2017, pp. 1–283, doi : 10.11646 / phytotaxa.322.1.1 .
  5. ↑ Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park. List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites at the UN (English / French).