Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares of cloud forest.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Forest
- Description: forest reserve located in Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve” and “Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Elena.
Santa Elena
Photo: Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Elena is a village in Costa Rica on the border between the provinces of Puntarenas and Alajuela. It is a popular base camp for eco travelers and backpackers because it lies next to some spectacular rainforests and rugged mountain hiking areas.
Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves
- Category: protected area
- Location: Monteverde, Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.30345° or 10° 18′ 12″ northLongitude
-84.78771° or 84° 47′ 16″ westElevation
1,589 metres (5,213 feet)Open location code
762Q8636+9WOpenStreetMap ID
way 310449313OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Satellite Map
Discover Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মন্তেভার্দে বৃষ্টিপ্রবণ সংরক্ষিত বনাঞ্চল”
- Catalan: “Reserva biològica Bosc Nebulós Monteverde”
- Cebuano: “Monteverde Reserve”
- Chinese: “蒙特维多云雾森林”
- Dutch: “Biologisch reservaat Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Dutch: “Reserva biologica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Dutch: “Reserva biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Esperanto: “Nubarbaro-Rezervejo de Monteverde”
- French: “réserve biologique Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- French: “Réserve biologique de Monteverde”
- Galician: “Reserva biolóxica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- German: “Biologisches Reservat Monteverde”
- German: “Nationalpark Monteverde”
- Hebrew: “שמורת יער העננים מונטוורדה”
- Italian: “Riserva della foresta nebulosa di Monteverde”
- Malay: “Hutan Simpan Awan Monteverde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monteverde biologiske reservat”
- Norwegian: “Monteverde biologiske reservat”
- Polish: “Monteverde”
- Polish: “Rezerwat Las Mgielny Monteverde”
- Portuguese: “Reserva Biológica do Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde”
- Slovenian: “Rezervat oblačnega gozda Monteverde”
- Spanish: “Bosque nuboso de monteverde”
- Spanish: “Bosque nuboso de Monteverde”
- Spanish: “Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde”
- Spanish: “Reserva Biologica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Spanish: “Reserva biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Spanish: “Reserva Biólogica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde”
- Swedish: “Monteverde molnskogsreservat”
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