Área de Conservación Guanacaste
In the seventies, Santa Rosa was a place marked by the history of the campaign of 1856. But, beyond the heroic battle, there was a natural world desperate to be rescued.
In 1971 it was declared a National Park, its territory extended to just over 10 thousand hectares and programs were initiated for the protection of the flora and fauna of this territory and to restore the forest lost in centuries of agriculture and livestock.
Today Santa Rosa and its more than 38 thousand hectares preserve the most important sample of protected dry forest in Mesoamerica.
The National Park is also part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area (ACG), which is listed since 1999 as a Natural World Heritage Site.
Calculations report that every year 30 thousand tourists visit the area for holidays or scientific reasons, whereas the magical rainy season when the forest comes to life receives less visitors.