The South Pacific region of Costa Rica is known for its biological diversity, natural beauty and intensely complex ecosystems. National Geographic magazine has called the area "the most biologically intense place on earth".
This paradise is a combination of tropical wilderness and beaches, catalogued by the National Geographic Society as "one of the most biologically intense places on Earth!".
Mostly tropical wet forest, also tropical premontane wet and rain forests; associations include marsh, mangrove and swamp forests, alluvial plains forest, cloud forest.