Tenorio Volcano National Park (Rio Celeste Waterfall)

If you love hiking surrounded by a lush forest, watching animals, birds, and exotic plants, we recommend you visit this park. The turquoise color of the Celeste River offers impressive landscapes, worth knowing and admiring.

Located in the Volcanic Mountain Range of Guanacaste, this Park houses a rainforest that protects species of flora and fauna of regional importance, such as Tapirs, Guatusas, Chachos de monte, Morpho Butterflies, and Toucans among other species of mammals and birds.

The Tenorio Volcano National Park and Tenorio Protective Zone are an integral part of the Agua y Paz Biosphere Reserve, named by UNESCO in September 2007.

The extension of the National Park is 12,871.53 ha, and that of the Tenorio Protection Zone is 5,553.98 ha; Together they protect a territory of 18,425.51 hectares. It is located between the cantons of Upala and Guatuso in the province of Alajuela, Cañas, and Tilarán in the province of Guanacaste.

It has great potential to generate usable ecosystem services for the surrounding communities. Promotes the conservation, management, and sustainable use of natural and cultural resources located within its territory and its surroundings.

It has high biodiversity including endemic species such as the Anolis tenorioensis and the Jícaro danto tree, endemic to the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Culturally it is of high importance for being part of the ancestral territory of the Maleku people.