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Santa Elena

A dry-forest peninsula in the Guanacaste Conservation Area.

World Heritage
1999
Santa Rosa park
1971

Then

  1. 1971

    Santa Rosa National Park is created.

  2. 1999

    The Guanacaste Conservation Area becomes a World Heritage Site.

  3. 2004

    The Santa Elena sector is added.

Now

Bahía Potrero Grande holds the only intact mangrove in the Pacific dry forest of Central America.

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