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Costa Rica is an exceptional country with an extraordinary refuge of life and plenty of natural surprises. Its territory represents 0.03% of the planets surface and maintains 5% biodiversity.
With respect to Costa Rican Fauna, it is said that it belongs exclusively to the geographic zone call Neotropical which includes South America, Central America, and parts of Mexico.
Vegetation varies according to altitude. Tropical forests can be distinguished in the coasts of the North and South where the rains are more abundant displaying greater divisions of plants and trees.
The Caribbean Coast is between 800 meters and 1500 meters over sea level. The vegetation is characteristic of tropical humid rain forests. Dry forests predominate in the Central Valley and the Pacific Coast where trees, herbaceous gram Incas, and plants proliferate. In the highest regions of the country, mixed tropical forests predominates.
Costa Rica has over 13,000 species of plants, 2,000 species of diurnal butterflies, 4,500 nocturnal butterflies, and 220 species of reptiles, 163 species of amphibians, and 1,600 species of fish and over 850 species of birds. Also Toucans, Moose, Deer, Anteaters, Slugs, Monkeys, Pizotes, Otter, Fox, Jaguar, Ocelotes, Pumas, and Lapas inhabit our country.
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