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Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately 550 km (342 mi; 297 nmi) southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. [2] It constitutes the 11th [ 3 ] of the 15 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the Province of Puntarenas .
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Map of Costa Rica. This is a list of islands of Costa Rica. ... Isla del Coco: 24 km 2 (9.3 sq mi)
The Costa Rican part of the site was initially listed independently in 1983, the part in Panama was added in 1990. [5] [6] Cocos Island National Park Puntarenas: 1997 820bis; ix, x (natural) The island, around 550 kilometres (340 mi) off the mainland, is located at the meeting point of the Equatorial Counter Current and other currents. It ...
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English: Blank map of Costa Rica for geo-location purpose. Note: The Isla del Coco, out of the map, is not shown. Scale: 1:1,856,000 (accuracy: 464 m). Equirectangular projection centered on 9°30'N – 84°15'W, WGS84 datum
The Cocos plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it. The Cocos plate was created approximately 23 million years ago when the Farallon plate broke into two pieces, which also created the Nazca plate .
It has the Level 3 code "CPI". It consists of a number of islands off the western coast of Central America in the Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Cocos Island and Malpelo Island. [1] Clipperton Island is the most north-westerly, lying off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Politically it belongs to France. [2]
Cocos Island National Park and two marine management areas are within the ACMC. There are 235 plant species, 400 of insects (65 endemic), 5 of reptiles (2 terrestrial endémic), 3 of marine turtles, 100 of birds (13 resident, 3 endemic), 50 arthropods (7 endemic), 57 of crustaceans, 600 of marine molluscs and 250 of fish.