GUANACASTE NORTH PACIFIC AREA  
Palo Verde National Park    

      Palo Verde is the heart of the Tempisque Lowlands, a migratory and resident waterfowl refuge along the Tempisque River in Guanacaste. For most of the year, the lakes here are inhabited by more than 50,000 waterfowl and forest birds.
     The topography of the park is a mosaic of floodplain habitats bordered by rivers and a ridge of limestone hills. The floodplain is very poorly drained, and consequently is subject to seasonal floods of great magnitude, creating twelve to fifteen wildlife habitats, including salt and fresh water lakes and swamps, grasslands with black mangroves, mangrove swamps, pastures, lowland stunted forests, low limestone hills, wooded savannas and evergreen forests.
     The park was named after "palo verde" (hose bean) trees, abundant in most areas of the park. These are a leafy bush, the branches and parts of the trunk light green in color. The hilly areas of the park are home to an endemic species of cactus. The nearly-extinct lignum-vitae tree, prized for its wood, is also found here.

Rincón de Ia Vieja National Park
Palo Verde National Park    
Rio Tempisque
Barra Honda

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