COSTA RICA-NATURE

Picture taken 08 January 2005 of the Sirena river, which goes through the Corcovado National Park, some 360 km south of the capital San Jose, in the Costa Rican Pacific coast. The 44400 hectare park, is one of the last protected areas in the American Pacific which has ecosystems of its Tropical Humid Forest still unaltered. According to biologist Fabio Sanchez, the park has some 500 different types of trees and is home to around 140 species of mammals, 367 of birds, 117 of reptiles and amphibious, 6000 of insects and 40 of freshwater fish. AFP PHOTO/Mayela LOPEZ (Photo by MAYELA LOPEZ / AFP) (Photo by MAYELA LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)