Monteverde Canton
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Monteverde is the twelfth canton of the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, located in the Cordillera de Tilarán (Tilarán range). Roughly a four-hour drive from the Central Valley, Monteverde is one of the country's major ecotourism destinations, with the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde (Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve) being the largest, in addition to several other natural attractions which draw considerable numbers of tourists and naturalists, both from Costa Rica and abroad.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canton of Costa Rica
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Located in
- Puntarenas Province
- Contains
- Monteverde
- Capital
- Monteverde
- Population
- 5386
- Area
- 53.47
- Elevation
- 1330
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Tilarán Canton
- Official website
- monteverde.go.cr
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- Monteverde
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Climate
- History
- Early 20th century
- 1950s and forward
- 2005 bank raid
- Canton creation
- Today
- Geography
- Administrative territorial division
- Demographics
- Education
- Transportation
- Road transportation
- Economy
- Agriculture
- Tourism
- Places of interest
- Nature
- Preserve
- UGA Costa Rica
- References
- External links
Monteverde is the twelfth canton of the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, located in the Cordillera de Tilarán (Tilarán range). Roughly a four-hour drive from the Central Valley, Monteverde is one of the country's major ecotourism destinations, with the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde (Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve) being the largest, in addition to several other natural attractions which draw considerable numbers of tourists and naturalists, both from Costa Rica and abroad.
National Geographic has called the Monteverde Cloud Forest "the jewel in the crown of cloud forest reserves". Newsweek ranked Monteverde the world's No. 14 "place to remember before it disappears"; by popular vote in Costa Rica, Monteverde was deemed one of the seven natural wonders of the nation, along with Isla del Coco, Volcán Arenal, Cerro Chirripó, Río Celeste, Tortuguero, and Volcán Poás.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monteverde Canton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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