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14-592: The park is located on the volcanic Cordillera Central (Central mountain range) between San José city and Puerto Limón on the Caribbean. It is accessible from the Limon Highway, which bisects the park (northwest to southeast), and from Barva canton on the north. The park is separated into three main sectors — Zurquí, Quebrada Gonzales, and Barva. Established in 1978, the park was formed as an agreement with environmental lobbyists to limit and prevent development of

28-599: The Barva Volcano ; and several dormant volcanoes including Cerro Chompipe, Cerro Cacho Negro, and Cerros las Tres Marias. The Barva sector has three crater lakes — Barva, Danta, and Copey. The park also protects areas of the Sarapiquí River watershed, including large amounts of primary cloud and rainforest, and the flora and fauna that makes it their home. Others in the park include the Hondura River, Patria River, and

42-664: The Continental Divide to east of Cordillera de Tilarán . It extends 80 km from Tapezco Pass to the Turrialba Volcano and ends on the Pacuare River . It is separated from Cordillera de Tilarán by Balsa River and Platanar and Zarcero hills. The Cordillera Central is part of the American Cordillera , a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form

56-506: The La Selva Protected Zone in the park's north is a difficult and long route. It can take over 4 days to traverse the entire length. Other shorter trails include Los Botarramas and El Ciebo, both between 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.24 mi) long. They have steep sections with panoramic views. Cordillera Central (Costa Rica) The Cordillera Central is a volcanic mountain range in central Costa Rica which continues from

70-540: The Poás Volcano is the central feature of Poás Volcano National Park , featuring permanent fumarolic activity. Barva Volcano features prominent hydrothermal activity (hot springs) and is a part of Braulio Carrillo National Park . Irazú Volcano National Park contains Irazú Volcano, the highest volcano of Costa Rica. The significant elevation of the volcano makes it a strategic site for telecommunications, many national television and radio stations have their antennas at

84-472: The area after the construction of the Limon Highway, a major road linking the capital to the Caribbean cargo port of Puerto Limón . The park was named after former Costa Rican president Braulio Carrillo , whose administration had helped foster the nation's early agricultural economy and had built the first road linking San José to the Caribbean coast. The park contains many notable geological features, such as

98-617: The backbone mountains of the Baja California peninsula . The Cordillera carries on through the mountain ranges of Central America in Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica , and Panama , and becomes the Andes Mountains of South America . The Cordillera, having extended through Central America , continues through South America and even to the Antarctic . In South America,

112-459: The mineral-colored Súcio River . Both the large size (108,970 acres) of Braulio Carrillo National Park, and its varied altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) between the highest and lowest points, make it home to several WWF ecoregions . Ranging from high-altitude cloud forests to lowlands tropical rainforest , it has one of the highest levels of biodiversity in Costa Rica. More than 90% of

126-730: The parallel Columbia Mountains and Coast Ranges of mountains and islands continue through British Columbia and Vancouver Island . In the United States , the Cordillera branches include the Rockies , the Sierra Nevada , the Cascades , and various small Pacific coastal ranges . In Mexico , the Cordillera continues through the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental , as well as

140-544: The park is covered in primary forest . The park contains landscapes representing the WWF ecoregions of Talamancan montane forests at high elevations and the Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests at low elevations. It is significant for its biodiversity with 600 identified species of trees, over 530 species of birds, and 135 species of mammals catalogued. The area near Barva is home to the elusive frog Pristimantis altae , and

154-474: The summit. Turrialba Volcano National Park centered on Turrialba Volcano features fumarolic activity and gas emissions. This Costa Rican location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . American Cordillera The American Cordillera ( / ˌ k ɔːr d əl ˈ j ɛ r ə / KOR -dəl- YERR -ə ) is a chain of mountain ranges ( cordilleras ), consisting of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form

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168-757: The venomous snake bushmaster . Examples of birds found include the solitary eagle , the bare-necked umbrellabird , as well as several species of hummingbirds . Unlike the more popular Costa Rican parks, such as Poás Volcano National Park and Manuel Antonio National Park , Braulio Carrillo National Park is relatively unmaintained and untravelled. Three main ranger stations serve the park. Two of them, Quebrada Gonzales and Barva, provide sanitary facilities and drinking water for visitors. There are several available hiking trails in Braulio Carrillo National Park, which can be narrow and are not regularly monitored by park rangers. The trail from Puesto Barva to

182-444: The western "backbone" of North America , Central America , South America and Antarctica . It contains four large volcanoes Poás (2,708 m), Barva (2,906 m), Irazú and Turrialba (3,340 m). The highest peak is Irazú at 3,432 m. South of the range lie elevated plains of central tectonic depression of Costa Rican Central Valley . Cordillera Central's four main volcanoes are protected as national parks . Volcanic massif of

196-778: The western "backbone" of the Americas . Aconcagua is the highest peak of the chain. It is also the backbone of the volcanic arc that forms the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire . The overlapping and parallel ranges begin in the north with the Alaska Range and the Brooks Range in Alaska , and run through the Yukon into British Columbia . The main belt of the Rocky Mountains along with

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