Iguanita Wildlife Refuge

This is a National Refuge of Costa Rica, it is located inside Bahia Culebra, 4th district Nacascolo, Liberia,

Guanacaste, Costa Rica, just about 34.2 km and 32 minutes of Liberia downtown. The Refuge corresponds to the

Area de Conservacion Tempisque ( ACT ), and is administrated by Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion

( SINAC ).

Before 1993 thanks movements of some communities like Liberia, Sardinal, Palmira, Comunidad, Guardia

And others to promote the protection of the nature region and the habitats of “Playa Iguanita” was created

“Iguanita Wildlife Refuge” in order to provide protection to the beach, forests, mangroves and fauna.

1. Creation:

According to the desire to maintain, preserve and develop a natural place like the old place “Playa

Iguanita”, in 1993 a group of leaders from different communities in the area proposed to turn the area in a Refuge

Area. Consequently, the proposal was welcomed by Executive Order 23217 by MIRENEM ( actually MINAE )

And the ICT that created Iguanita Wildlife Refuge in 1994 to maintain and develop the low-impact

tourism.

This refuse was decreed for protection of great diversity of species, marine and cultural resources, as well as

To provide opportunities of investigation, protection, education and social tourism of low-impact; for that has a

social, regional and political institutions support to increase the protection of terrestrial ecosystems and mariners

of the zone and the maintenance of the tradition of use popular of the “Playa Iguanita”

http://www.sinac.go.cr/AC/ACT/RNVS%20Iguanita/Paginas/default.aspx

2. Weather

Guanacaste has a dry climate because it is located in the lowlands, providing a warm and dry climate

experimenting few ra...

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...e “Iguanita Wildlife Refuge”, in the file Nº 16.349,

and published in La Gaceta Nº 186, September 2006. The objective of the Refuge is ensured the Costa Ricans

and Guanacastecos the enjoyment of the Refuge, giving equality of opportunities and rights in order that all

citizens be able to have access to the enjoyment of the beach.

Nevertheless the controversy and fight of these associations follows being to maintain the intact nature, as

beautiful, perfect and majestic is, wherefore the ICT, MINAE, and municipalities that are parts of the government

are giving concessions, parts of the beach and the refuge, causing the loss of the natural and magical of this

beach that it is the familiar love, which it exists in this place thanks to the tradition of hundreds of families that

join together in the beach for camping 3 or 4 days several times yearly.