Six types of tropical forest, 900 acres Private Reserve, 11 attractions points, 30 miles of forest trails from 2,100 feet above sea level to 6000 feet high. Horseback riding tours everyday, tours with bilingual naturalist guides, archaelogical sites, volcanic attractions, more than 300 species of birds and 11,000 species of plants.
Butterfly Garden
Visit our butterfly garden and nursery and see beautiful butterflies fluttering around exotic flowers.

Blue Lagoon Waterfall
This beautiful 90 feet high waterfall drop down into a magnificent blue fresh water lagoon where one can swim and cool off after the 2 hours hike. Its totally blue because of its copper content in the water.Incredible views of the Papagayo gulf and great hiking through primary and secondary forest.

Las Pailas (kitchen stoves) or Mud Boiling Volcanoes
The most volcanic activity you can see through out the country with geysers, caves, mud volcanoes, natural sauna steam bath, sulfur warm water springs and more!

Azufrales
Sulfurous Hot Water Spring. Offer a unique experience, relax while bathing in this unique swimming pool filled with warm water coming out of the mountain.

Extraordinary Bromeliad:
See one more thing that is unique from Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, “The Vrizea Vulcanicola “, bromeliad endemic to this Park and Costa Rica. Bromelias have no preference for a specifie tree, although they do have one for a particular habitat.

Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
Impressive and imposing, the Rincón de la Vieja Volcano has been distinguished as one of the most exuberant and unexplored areas of the Costa Rican territory. Its difficult access make it into a challenge and mystery to its visitors. Its scenic beauty encloses all kinds of contrasts: colors, vegetation and fauna, and its geography turn it into an unique and a complete adventure to be experienced.
The Rincón de la Vieja Volcano is part of the areas protected by the Costa Rican Government under the National Park regime and it is composed of two massifs, the Santa Maria and the one that provides the park's name. Nine craters have been identified, but only one of them is active; nevertheless, around the volcanoes you can observe fumaroles, vapor and volcanic mud spurts.
Rincón de la Vieja is a strato volcano that soars 1,916 meters above sea level and spreads over 400 square kilometers. It was formed by the simultaneous explosion of several volcanic cones that grew and merged into a single mountain. It has been possible to identify 9 sites of volcanic activity on the summit. One is active and the others are slowly eroding.
The Rincón de la Vieja last strong eruption period was between 1966 and 1970, when it produced earthquakes, ash clouds and underground noises. Other eruptions, of lower intensity, took place between 1983 and 1984 without causing much alarm among the scarce population located near the place.

Rincón de la Vieja National Park
The Rincón de La Vieja National Park is located in the Guanacaste mountain range, province of Guanacaste and Alajuela, 27-km northeast of Liberia City. The park has an extension of 14.083.9 hectares.
One the biggest benefits of this wild area is the protection of the hydrographic river basins. In this park exist probably the mayor population in wild state of the "Guaria Morada", the national flower. It has a great tourist potential due to the attractive it posses, especially the great beauty and the geologic characteristics.
The solid Rincón de La Vieja, of 1.916 Mts. of altitude, is a compose structure. At the top nine eruptive points has been identified, one active and the others inactive in degradation process. To the south of the crater you can find a pure water lagoon.
At the foot of the volcano, of the south size are the areas called Las Pailas and the Hornilllas ("Kitchen Stoves"), which covers a surface of 50 hectares. It is a site with associated volcanic formations. Hot springs form small streams with very hot water. Solfataric lakes fill small hollows with constantly bubbling muddy water.
The Rincón de La Vieja presents a large diversity of habitats due to the differences in altitude and precipitation, the volcanic eruptive effect and the type of watershed. In the lower parts the most common trees are: the laurel, the guanacaste, the aceituno, the ardillo, the naked Indian, the bitter cedar and the capulin blanco.
In the intermediate zone that lies between 800 and 1,500 meters above sea level is thickly covered with cupey, the manwood, the jicaro danto, the yos, the iguano, the oak, which grows over 30 meters high and up to 1 meter in diameter.
From 1500 mts up to the top, the forests is short and the trees are covered with muss and toras. The most common species are the cupey, the papayillo, and the crespon oacute. The top of the volcano is cover by ash and vegetation is sparse. Some of the plants are the cupey and the poor man's umbrella.
The vegetation in the northwestern sector of the park is typical of the Atlantic side of the volcano. The forest towers overhead with trees up to 40 meters tall. The understorey is often very mixed with a predominant growth of palms.
Studies carried out in the park have identified 257 species of birds, including the three-wattled bellbird, which is named for its loud and strange metallic call.
Other resident species are the great curassow which thrives in large numbers in the lowlands, black-faced solitaire, Montezuma oropendola, bank swallow, emerald toucanet, elegant trogon, blue-throated goldentail, spectacled owl, white-fronted amazone, bare-necked umbrella bird and guaco.

Guanacaste Conservation Area in Costa Rica
The Guanacaste Conservation Area (The red area on the map) is composed of what used to be different categories of National Parks: Santa Rosa, Guanacaste and Rincón de la Vieja, as well as Estacion Experimental Horizontes and the Wildlife Refuge of Bahía Junquillal.
A series of properties were purchased to form a continuous block of biodiversity of 120,000 terrestrial hectares and 70,000 marine hectares, in which there exist approximately 230,000 species (65% of the estimated number of species in Costa Rica). The Area de Conservación Guanacaste has 10 years experience in searching for and making a model based on a tropical reality which would permit the conservation of biodiversity by means of non-damaging use by society. The ACG, is one of the eleven Areas of Conservation that make up the Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservación (SINAC) (National System of Conservation Areas), of the Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía (MINAE) (Ministry of the Environment and Energy) of the Costa Rican government.
In response to the new policies of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, of decentralizing functions and responsibilities, the ACG has increased its responsibilities to add the Agricultural Landscape (Agroscape) Area , whose management objectives are different from those of the ACG. This is a new step for the ACG, in which we have to develop the experience, human resources and the financial resources necessary to accomplish the objectives of the Agro landscape Area.