The Cloudy Forest in Costa Rica

Onlookers and investigators keep on amazing every day that happens when they cover the famous Cloudy Forest of Costa Rica. This authentic marvel of the ground is in Monte Verde, the only and beautiful ecosystem that we invite you today to know.

It is possible to be said that this Cloudy Forest is a rainy forest, but with a very clear and valuable difference. It is to a big altitude, surrounded with mountains, and due to this altitude, the forest is always wrapped between clouds, hence his name. These clouds provoke that the water drops contact straight the sheets of the trees, creating an ideal habitat so that they could live through animals and plants.

In the high part of the mountains, the clouds assure that there should always be a constant dripping of water, like an eternal leak of the sky. Of course, it is a place that it is necessary to cover carefully, because, these clouds are that posbilitan that it is very easy to get lost for his footpaths. Due to the altitude, it can do also little cold, but this has not prevented the flora and the fauna from being here exceptional.

Without going further, the Cloudy Forest of Costa Rica is the hearth of more than 755 species of trees. According to the biologists, there are more than 358 species of ferns, some of which grow up to incredible sizes, which even can be confused with other trees. There are about forty or fifty species of fruit-bearing trees, therefore it is a place in which wild species as birds and animals can live perfectly.

As for the fauna that it is possible to see in the Cloudy Forest, there have been taken into account a whole of 425 species of birds, 68 species of bats, six species of felines, foxes, lazy bears, armadillos, and numerous amphibious and reptiles. Any of the animals, especially the birds, they do not live permanently in the forest, but they have looking for forage for his nests, and leave again. Nevertheless, of course, many of the species that you will see in this forest are rare species that are not in any other part of the world.
Nowadays, this Cloudy Forest is one of the destinations more impressive that the nature has private room to us in the Caribbean Sea. It is in Costa Rica, in Monte Verde. To what do you wait to touch the clouds with the fingers?. The sky waits for you in the ground.

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