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La Cangreja National Park, until 2002 the Cerro de la Cangreja Protected Zone, is a
/ref> It is a part of the Central Pacific Conservation Area, near the
La Iguana Chocolate
— ''Costa Rican owned chocolate farm next to the park''.
Rancho Mastatal Sustainability Education Center
National parks of Costa Rica Geography of San José Province Protected areas established in 1987 Tourist attractions in San José Province {{CostaRica-protected-area-stub
National Park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
in the Puriscal Canton
Puriscal is the 4th canton in the province of San José, Costa Rica.
The head city of the canton is Santiago.
Toponymy
In Spanish, a is the flower of the common bean. A is a field of flowering beans.
Geography
Puriscal has an area of km ...
of San José Province
San José () is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the central part of the country, and borders (clockwise beginning in the north) the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia, Limón, Cartago and Puntarenas. The provincial and national capital ...
, in west-central Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
.La Cangreja National Park/ref> It is a part of the Central Pacific Conservation Area, near the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
coast.
See also
*National parks of Costa Rica
There are currently 30 National Parks of Costa Rica, which are managed under the umbrella of SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion), a department of Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE). All told, Costa Rica's prote ...
* San José Province
San José () is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the central part of the country, and borders (clockwise beginning in the north) the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia, Limón, Cartago and Puntarenas. The provincial and national capital ...
References
External links
La Iguana Chocolate
— ''Costa Rican owned chocolate farm next to the park''.
Rancho Mastatal Sustainability Education Center
National parks of Costa Rica Geography of San José Province Protected areas established in 1987 Tourist attractions in San José Province {{CostaRica-protected-area-stub