Poas Volcano National Park
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Poas Volcano National Park is established the 25 of January of 1971, as National Park with 5,600 has, it was extended in 1993 to encluir the Congo Hill, for a total of 6..506 has. The National Park Poás Volcano, besides to receive the greater affluence of visitors in all the country, also is an important power source, product of the hydric and geothermal resources. |
Poas Volcano National Park is rising 2,708 meters above sea level, the volcan gas emissions have notably increased since 1989, causing acid rain that has damaged plant life in some areas of the national park as well as neighboring agricultural plantations. The summit volcan poas features two craters: the main one, at one and a half kilometers in diameter and 300 meters deep; and Laguna Botos, a cold, rain-fed lake that feeds the Río Ángel, a tributary of the Río Sarapiquí that flows into the Caribbean.
The Poas Volcano represented zone of life is the Pluvial Forest Montano and the Forest Very Humid Low Montano. 4 main habitats exist. Dull the cloudy forest that surrounds the lagoon and the back part by Potrero Grande; they predominate papayillo, the mount orange blossom, the oak and 2 species of ciprecillos. In slopes of the Caribbean sector, the forests are higher and very humid rich in palms, arborescentes and epífitas ferns. The stocky or dwarfed forest is observed throughout the footpath between Dull the Main Crater and the Lagoon: the predominant species are orange blossom of mote, tucuico and copey. Arrayanes predominates near the viewpoint of the crater and in the first stretch of the natural footpath towards the Lagoon Dull. Areas with little vegetation, in the neighborhood of the crater, where species like the fern live language on cow.
Although the fauna in general is little, the birds is abundant. One has identified 79 species of birds, among them escachero, colibríes, quetzal, black turkey hen, comemaíz, tucancillo green, bulging of patigrande and bulging of yellow thighs. The mammals are not abundant in high territories of the park; nevertheless, are musarañas, weasels, rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, frogs, toads, salamanders, serpents and insects.
Besides to receive the greater affluence of visitors of the protected areas of all Costa Rica, also it is an important place for the protection of species of flora, hydric fauna and resources of great importancis for the human and industral consumption.Poas Volcano is an active volcano of subconical form, with several caldéricas depressions in its part superios. At heart of the crater one forms a rich sulfur lagoon and acids, that when the curing the sulfur emission intensifies and produces acid rain. To the north of the active crater encuestra the cone Von Frantzius, the oldest eruptivo center in the top of the bulk. To the Southeastern there is another cone occupied by lagun to Oilbags, constituted by cold water of pluvial origin.