Tortuguero Village

Tortuguero, Costa Rica, which can be translated as Land of Turtles, is a village on the Northern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the Limón Province. It gave its name to the neighboring Tortuguero National Park. The village is situated on a sand bar island, separated from the mainland by Tortuguero River and bordering the Caribbean Sea. Tortuguero is renowned for its navigable canals that run through the rainforest in the national park, and has such earned the nickname of ‘Central America’s Amazon. The beaches around Tortuguero are key nesting sites for four species of sea turtle, around 36000 nests per year with more or less then 120 eggs. Includinf two critically endangered species. The National Park is also host to an incredible biodiversity of insects, resident and migratory birds, and mammals, including jaguar and four species of monkey (Wikipedia). To go there is possible only by boat or plane.