Piedras Blancas National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Piedras Blancas National Park
Piedras Blancas National Park (Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas) was added to theCosta Rica national park systemin 1991 by splitting off the Esquinas Sector of Corcovado National Park. The sector is part of theEsquinas Rainforestand was not contiguous with the rest of Corcovado Park. It's a large area, so creating a new park made a lot of sense. Piedras Blancas occupies 34,642 acres (14,019 hectares). It is located within Puntarenas province. Conservation groups are working to establish a contiguous protected corridor between the Piedras Blancas National Park andCorcovado National Park. Rugged mountains with dense tropical rainforest dominate the park landscape. Two rivers, theRio Esquinasand theRio Piedras Blancas, run through the park, emptying into the Golfo Dulce. Austrian researchers w
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