Caño Negro
The National wildlife refuge of Caño Negro counts on an extension of 9.940 hectares. It is located in the cantons of The Chile and Guatuso of the Province of Alajuela.
It conserves one of the samples of most important humid zones of our territory, considered of international importance by serving of shelter to great quantity of migratory species, species in v’ ace of extinciópn and species of imporancia commercial.
The gap of Caño Negro is a lake somero freshwater with an extension of 800 Has. and a desagëe of stagnant water of the adjacent Cold river and its tributary the river Mónica.
The area that understands the gap and its outskirts constitutye one of the most diverse biological areas and of vital importance for the maintenance of the environmental quality in the northern part of the country.
Besides, the area constitutes a habitat with great flora species variety and fauna and natural communities, many of them unique or in danger of extinction that do of the area a place of international importance, therefore they constitute, along with the humid zones al south of the Lake of Nicaragua, one of the smuestras of more outstanding humid zone of Mesoamerica.
This Refuge is source of alimenteo for north migratory birds. Species of plants exist and animal that are found us in other parts of country, great abundance of birds and fish for the human consumption and is one of the few parts where the fish needle is found or gaspar.