The Cordillera de Talamanca is a mountain range that lies in the southeast half of Costa Rica and the far west of Panama . Much of the range and the area around it is included in La Amistad International Park , which also is shared between the two countries.
11-647: Talamanca may refer to: Cordillera de Talamanca , a mountain range in Costa Rica and Panama Kingdom of Talamanca , a former political entity in present day Costa Rica Talamanca (canton) , a canton in Limón, Costa Rica Talamanca languages , branch of Chibchan languages spoken in Costa Rica and Panama Talamanca (Bages) , a municipality in Catalonia, Spain Talamanca de Jarama ,
22-578: A municipality in Madrid, Spain "Talamanca", a song by Burns (musician) Alessandro Figà Talamanca (1938–2023), an Italian mathematician Tommy Talamanca (born 1973), an Italian musician USS Talamanca , a cargo ship owned by the United Fruit Company , and used by the United States Navy during World War II See also [ edit ] Talamancan montane forests , ecoregion of
33-669: A sort of shrub and dwarf bamboo Chusquea dominated scrub, above 3,400 metres (11,200 ft) this becomes Costa Rican páramo , a tropical alpine grassland. The sub-páramo and páramo vegetation are subject to regular frosts at night, temperatures above 3,200 metres (10,500 ft) can reach 0 °C (32 °F) or below, the lowest recorded temperature was −9 °C (16 °F) at the Mount Chirripó base camp (the second lowest ever recorded in Central America). The region has been extensively studied by paleolimnologists to reconstruct
44-591: Is a professor at the University of Tennessee , Knoxville. Her work in Costa Rica and other tropical regions has been featured in a number of publications, including National Geographic . She has published over 100 articles relating to paleolimnology and biogeography . She is director of the University of Tennessee Laboratory of Paleoenvironmental Research and associate director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science. Horn
55-436: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cordillera de Talamanca This range in the south of Costa Rica stretches from southwest of San José to beyond the border with Panama and contains the highest peaks of both Costa Rica and Panama, among them Cerro Chirripó at 3,820 metres (12,530 ft), and the more accessible high peak of Cerro de la Muerte . Much of
66-518: The Caribbean areas of the range are still unexplored. The range is covered by the Talamancan montane forests to elevations of approximately 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Much of it is covered by rainforests. Above elevations of 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) these are dominated by huge oak trees ( Quercus costaricensis ). Above 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), the forests transition to enclaves of sub-páramo,
77-514: The Cordillera Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Talamanca . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talamanca&oldid=1225213885 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
88-553: The Talamanca mountain range, including Chirripó National Park . The Cordillera de Talamanca and La Amistad national parks have been designated by UNESCO a World Heritage Site It is also the first binational biosphere reserve . The two parks comprise 2,400 square kilometres (930 sq mi) of land and protect important ecosystems like paramo, and wetlands. The highland paramo is located mainly in subalpine forests and thickets, located at an altitude between 3,100-3,300 m.a.s.l. and
99-417: The alpine scrub and grasslands, located between 3,300-3,819 m.a.s.l. Peat bogs are wetlands located in topographic depressions, on poorly drained land and are periodically flooded. In Costa Rica they are located in the low montane and high montane altitude zones. The flora is similar to the high elevation moors, including also oak trees ( Quercus spp.), and Blechnum plants in association with bryophytes from
110-538: The changes in climate, vegetation and fire frequencies (see also Sally P Horn ). The range is of global importance as it is a centre of endemism for many plant and animal groups and as an important habitat for many large mammals ( Baird's Tapir , Puma , Jaguar ) and birds that are now threatened in much of their range. An intended hydroelectricity project threatens the existence of the Tabasara Rain Frogs . Several national parks and reservations are located in
121-545: The genus Sphagnum . Other common genus are Rubus , Pteridium and Comarostaphyllis . The El Empalme peat bog suffers greater pressure from agricultural activity and as altitude increases, there is an increase in floristic diversity. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Costa Rica ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 220. Sally P Horn Sally P. Horn
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