Cabo Blanco Strict Nature Reserve

Cabo Blanco is a refuge of vital importance for the protection of seabirds. It is also one of the most beautiful scenic sites on the Pacific Coast. Some of the attractions that make Cabo Blanco such an interesting and beutiful wilderness area within the park system are its dense green forests, deep-blue sea, unusual geological formations, variety of wildlife, and innumerable tidal pools where sea creatures are trapped.

Cabo Blanco gets more rain per year than any other part of the Dry Pacific Region.

Despite the small size of the reserve, it houses a considerable variety of wildlife, although populations are not large. Howler monkeys, tree squirrels, white-tail deer are some of the species. Seabirds are very numerous, brown pelicans, frigatebirds, laughing gulls, and brown boobies ( largest in the country). Also some of the species of land birds include the long-tailed manakin, cattle egret, green heron, elegant trogon and turkey vulture.

There is a variety of marine life at Cabo Blanco fish, crabs, chitons, lobsters, shrimp and many other species that live in the intertidal zone off the neighboring shores.

The southernmost tip of the reserve, where the Nicoya Peninsula ends, is another interesting site to visit, and can be explored at low tide. Cabo Blanco Island , is an impregnable refuge for seabirds, it is located 1.6kms offshore and serves as a very visible landmark.

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