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Caño Negro, a shallow, seasonal lake near the country's northern border, is a bird watchers paradise during the second half of the year, when great flocks of ducks, herons and other waterfowl gather there.
 Caño Negro Caño Negro has been designated a wetland of international importance under the RAMSAR convention. Representations of Caño Negro on most maps are actually misleading, since they show the lake's extension at the height of the rainy season. Once the rains die down in December, the lake rapidly shrinks, and by February it disappears completely, and most of the waterfowl has moved onto the Rio Frio, the river that Caño Negro drains into. The river trip on the Rio Frio, which is the most common way of reaching Caño Negro, is consequently often more interesting that actually visiting the lake.
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Ecotourism and Nature 
