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Cocos Island was declared a Costa Rican National Park by means of an executive decree in 1978 and designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. In 2002, the World Heritage Site designation was extended to include an expanded marine zone of 1,997 km 2 (771 sq mi).
The west side is public land, part of the Territorial Park System. Ferries run to Malesso'. During the Spanish times, the island was owned by Don Ignacio Mendiola Dela Cruz (Tu'an). In the late 1920s, the US Government acquired two thirds of the island via eminent domain. In the mid-1930s, Don Ignacio sold the remaining third to a businessman ...
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.
Park Coordinates [3] Area [4] Attractions Arenal Volcano 12,124 ha (29,960 acres) ... Cocos Island National Park. A tapir in Corcovado National Park.
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 supports the only tropical rainforest on an oceanic island in the eastern Pacific and is home to several endemic species ...
Ontario border on the St. Lawrence River north of Robert Moses State Park - Thousand Islands 40°29′46″N 74°14′51″W / 40.49611°N 74.24750°W / 40.49611; -74 Ward's Point , Staten Island
Cocos Lagoon appears as a small incomplete coral atoll attached to the south-western coast of Guam near the area of the village of Malesso'. It stretches about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) east-west and 3.5 km (2.2 mi) north-south, covering an area of more than 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi).
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ ˈ k oʊ k ə s /; [5] [6] Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.