Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge

Infobox_protected_area | name = Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge
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location = Costa Rica
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area = 25,100 acres
established = 1984
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governing_body = National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC)

Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica twenty kilometers south of Los Chiles near the border with Nicaragua in the Alajuela province. The refuge is a wetlands site that is home to many migratory waterfowl during part of the year, centered on Lake Caño Negro which is fed by the Frio River during the rainy season. There are no public facilities at the refuge, and the area can be explored only by boat.

The forests, grasslands and marshes of the area provide shelter for various endangered species such as cougars, jaguars, tapirs and ocelots, peccary and several species of monkey (white-headed capuchin, mantled howler and Geoffroy's spider monkey), as well as many others. In the dry season area is reduced to little lagoons, channels and beaches which the gives home to thousands of migratory birds of many species such as storks, spoonbills, ibis, anhingas, ducks and cormorants.

External links

* [http://www.costarica-nationalparks.com/canonegrowildliferefuge.html Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge] at Costa Rica National Parks
* [http://www.wikicostarica.com:16080/index.php/Ca%C3%B1o_Negro_National_Refuge Videos of Cano Negro]
* [http://www.ianandwendy.com/OtherTrips/CostaRica/video_Cano_Negro.htm Video from a boat trip down Cano Negro, showing the diversity of its flora and fauna ]