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San Gerardo de Rivas is a small village (population less than 400) high up in the valley of the ' river in the
Cloudbridge Nature Reserve
while the other is the start of the Cerro Chirripó National Park's hiking trail leading up towards the peak. The village acts as a base camp for hikers and climbers wishing to reach the peak of Cerro Chirripó, the highest mountain in Costa Rica and the second highest in Central America. The Aguas Termales GEVI thermal pools in San Gerardo de Rivas is a favorite destination among locals and tourists, which is fed by a natural thermal water stream.
San Gerardo de RivasCloudBridge Nature Reserve
* {{coord, 9.465317, N, 83.595142, W, display=title, region:CR_type:landmark_scale:1000000, name=San Gerardo de Rivas
San Gerardo de Rivas
Populated places in San José Province
Talamanca Mountains
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 ...
of south central Costa Rica
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. It is 20 kilometers northeast of San Isidro de El General, which is the second-largest city in San José Province.
Economy and tourism
San Gerardo de Rivas is a traditional Tico village situated in an agricultural region in the Talamanca Mountain range, although recently is changing to adopt eco-tourism, with economic opportunities for locals and newcomers also. The complex and rarecloud forest
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...
environment the village is located in is famed for its waterfalls and its diverse wildlife including rare species of birds, large felines (cougar
The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the Americas. Its Species distribution, range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mamm ...
s and jaguar
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s) and monkeys, varieties of orchids and butterflies.
A few miles above the village the road splits in two directions, one goes towards thCloudbridge Nature Reserve
while the other is the start of the Cerro Chirripó National Park's hiking trail leading up towards the peak. The village acts as a base camp for hikers and climbers wishing to reach the peak of Cerro Chirripó, the highest mountain in Costa Rica and the second highest in Central America. The Aguas Termales GEVI thermal pools in San Gerardo de Rivas is a favorite destination among locals and tourists, which is fed by a natural thermal water stream.
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San Gerardo de Rivas
* {{coord, 9.465317, N, 83.595142, W, display=title, region:CR_type:landmark_scale:1000000, name=San Gerardo de Rivas
San Gerardo de Rivas
Populated places in San José Province