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The wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an enormous variety of wildlife, due in large part to its geographic position between North and South America, its neotropical climate, and its wide variety of habitats.
The categorisation scheme follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, in which Costa Rica is as politically defined, except that Cocos Island is treated separately. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of Costa Rica .
The following is a list of ecoregions in Costa Rica. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species. The biodiversity of flora, fauna and ecosystems that characterise an ecoregion tends to be distinct from that of other ecoregions.
Costa Rica hosts an astonishing number of species, given its size, having more animal and plant species than the US and Canada combined [2] hosting over 500,000 species of plants and animals. Despite this, Costa Rica is only 250 miles long and 150 miles wide.
Pages in category "Endemic flora of Costa Rica" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Costa Rican seasonal moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0119) covers the Pacific Slope of the volcanic mountain range of northwestern Costa Rica and the extreme south of Nicaragua. The area has a distinct dry season during which the characteristic deciduous trees drop their leaves.
The categorisation scheme follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, in which Costa Rica is as politically defined, except that Cocos Island is treated separately. Pages in category "Trees of Costa Rica"
Dracaena americana, the Central American dragon tree or candlewood, [4] is a neotropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to southern Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, and Colombia. [5] It is one of only two Dracaena species native to the Americas, the other being Dracaena cubensis. [6]