Search tourist attractions







Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Cocos Island

Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is an island located off the get of Costa Rica. It constitutes the 11th district (one of 13) of Puntarenas Canton of the province of Puntarenas. It is one of the National Parks of Costa Rica. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, roughly 550 km (340 mi) from the Pacific get of Costa Rica. With an area of roughly 23.85 km² (9.2 mi²), about 8×3 km (5×1.9 mi) and a perimeter of around 23.3 km this island is more or less rectangular in shape.
Surrounded by unfathomable waters with counter-currents, Cocos Island is admired by scuba divers for its populations of Hammerhead sharks, rays, dolphins and other large marine species. The extremely wet climate and oceanic case give Cocos an biology case that is not shared with either the Galapagos Archipelago or any of the other islands (e.g., Malpelo or Coiba) in this region of the world. Costa Rica travel guides.
GPS travel destinations: 5° 31′ 8″ N, 87° 4′ 18″ W

Cocos Island video:

Popularity: 33%

  • Share/Bookmark

Interesting things to do:

  1. Easter Island
  2. Block Island Southeast Light, Rhode Island
  3. Alcatraz Island
  4. Robben Island, Cape Town
  5. Could the Caribbean be one of the top holidays in the world!
  6. Delos Island, Mykonos
  7. Kona District, Hawaii
  8. Genovesa Island, Galapagos
  9. Syros Island, Greece
  10. My Walking Holiday Turned Out To Be Great Fun

7 comments to Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Login travel destinations

Travel guides and things to do, travel, information, hotel, picture, map, route planner, journey planner, trip advisor, cheap holidays, travel deals, holidays, vacations, vacation packages, trip planner, last minute deals,gps coordinates, cheap travel, tourist attractions, cheap vacation, vacation ideas, travel destinations