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Finca Bellavista is a self-sustaining tree-house community in Costa Rica encompassing 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of rainforest.It was founded in 2007. [1] The property is owned by Crested Beauty, S.A, which sells lots of between two and 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to the general public, in which a stilt house or tree house may be built.
The infamous treehouse village consisted of seven completely off-the-grid treehouses that relied on solar and wind power for energy, hydroponic sprout farms and composting toilets.
Costa Rica was a pioneer in this type of tourism, and the country is recognized as one of the few with true ecotourism. [2] While Costa Rica has gained immense popularity for its development of a successful, yet environmentally friendly , ecotourism industry, environmentalists and economists alike debate whether an economy centered on tourism ...
A tree house in the park of the Château de Langeais in the Loire Valley, France. A tree house, tree fort or treeshed, is a platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level. Tree houses can be used for recreation, work space, habitation, a hangout space and ...
It is found in the Puntarenas Province of southern Costa Rica near the town of La Gamba. It protects rainforests and beaches near the Golfo Dulce on the Pacific Coast. It used to operate as part of the Corcovado National Park called the Esquinas Sector from 1991 before becoming a separate park in 1999. Until the mid-1990s, much of the forest in ...
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest ...
The Republic of Costa Rica recognizes eight native ethnicities; Bribris, Chorotegas, Malekus, Ngöbe, Huetars, Cabecars, Borucas and Terrabas. [ 2 ] The Law also provides the territories of self-government and autonomy according to the traditional organization of the tribes, yet this is hardly applied. [ 1 ]
San José, Costa Rica: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Print. García-Serrano, Carlos Ramos and Juan Pablo Del Monte (2004). "The Use of Tropical Forest (Agroecosystems and Wild Plant Harvesting) as a Source of Food in the Bribri and Cabecar Cultures in the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica." Economic Botany, Vol. 58, No. 1: 58–71. Print.