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Cocos Island National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels

About Cocos Island National Park

Cocos Island is in the Eastern Tropical Pacific approximately300mi (480km)southwest of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. A rugged and incredibly beautiful island, today Cocos Island is the most sacred National park in Costa Rica's extensive park system. Among Cocos Island's many attributes is a startling degree of biodiversity. This island's world-renowned waters explode with life, including innumerable white tip reef sharks, schooling hammerhead sharks, dolphins, mantas and marbled rays, giant moray eels, sailfish, and of course the occasional whale shark. Other common encounters are large schools of jacks and tuna, silky sharks, silver tip sharks, marlin, Creole fish, green turtles and octopus. On the Island you will encounter a lot of pigs and not much else besides the usual vegetation. The isla

Cocos Island National Park Travel Guide Sections

Our comprehensive guide covers 12 sections including:

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