A former banana company town, Golfito now holds the country's only duty-free zone, "El Depósito Libre" where Ticos flock during the months preceding Christmas to buy a variety of goods. The town is beautifully situated overlooking the small gulf that gives it its name and hemmed in by the forested hills of the Golfito Wildlife Refuge.
It can serve as a base for trips to nature lodges within the Golfo Dulce, across the gulf to Puerto Jiménez or to the beaches of Zancudo or Pavones. A palm lines beach located southwest of Golfito, Zancudo offers visitors surfing, sportfishing and boas trips to a nearby mangrove estuary, which is home to plenty of birds and crocodiles. Pavones, a wild, windswept beach further to the southwest is famous among surfers for having one of the longest waves in the world.
Golfito National Wildlife Refuge
This refuge is located in an uneven wilderness atea with very heavy rains. The terrain was formed by a succession of hard basalts that date 50-65 million years old.
In this refuge the forest is dense and very evergreen. There is a botanical rarity found here, the quira (Carydaphnopsis burgeri), a tree that belongs to the Lauraceae family, a very primitive plant. Also you can find more common species as the Black palm.
Soma of the animals you may spot here are raccoons, coati, rats, frogs, snakes, soma resident mammals as the collared peccary, which is a highly social animal that lives in herds. The agouti is a rodent that belongs to the same family as the paw and is helpful spreading seeds from plants.
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