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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 .
Map of Costa Rica. This is a list of islands of Costa Rica. There are about 79 islands in Costa Rica. [1] Islands ... Isla del Coco: 24 km 2 (9.3 sq mi)
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 .
Costa Rica is in the Neotropical realm and Central America bioregion, and divided into the following terrestrial ecoregions, organized by biome: [1] [2] Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. Central American Atlantic moist forests [3] Cocos Island moist forests [4] Costa Rican seasonal moist forests [5] Isthmian–Atlantic moist ...
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]
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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.
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