Darien National Park
Panama
Darien is the great wilderness at the eastern end of Panama, against the Colombian border, the largest national park in…
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Central America
Largest national parks in Central America
The largest park in Central America is Darien, almost 6,000 square kilometres of rainforest, swamp and mountain on Panama's border with Colombia, the only break in the Pan-American Highway. Coiba, also in Panama, counts a large area of ocean around the biggest island on the Pacific side of the isthmus. The Dominican parks of Jaragua, Cotubanama and Los Haitises, Panama's Chagres and Cuba's Alejandro de Humboldt follow.
Coiba National Park
Panama
Coiba is a remote archipelago in the Pacific, off the coast of the Panamanian province of Veraguas, and it is one of…
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Jaragua National Park
Dominican Republic
Jaragua is in the deep south-west of the Dominican Republic, the driest, emptiest and least touristy corner of the…
2 tickets & tours
Chagres National Park
Panama
Chagres is a very large rainforest park that begins only about forty kilometres north-east of Panama City, an hour or…
2 tickets & tours
Cotubanama National Park
Dominican Republic
Cotubanama, which until 2014 was called the National Park of the East, occupies the blunt peninsula at the…
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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Cuba
The Alejandro de Humboldt park covers the wettest, wildest and least accessible mountains of Cuba, at the eastern end…
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Los Haitises National Park
Dominican Republic
Los Haitises is the mangrove and karst park on the southern shore of Samaná Bay in the north-east of the Dominican…
107 tickets & tours
Monte Cristi National Park
Dominican Republic
Monte Cristi lies in the far north-west of the Dominican Republic, close to the Haitian border, a dry, sun-struck…
3 tickets & tours
Braulio Carrillo National Park
Costa Rica
Braulio Carrillo is a huge expanse of mountain rainforest that begins only twenty kilometres north-east of San Jose,…
1 ticket or tour
Corcovado National Park
Costa Rica
Corcovado is the great rainforest park on the Osa Peninsula in the far south of Costa Rica, and since 2014 everyone…
32 tickets & tours
Desembarco del Granma National Park
Cuba
Desembarco del Granma, the landing of the Granma, lies at the south-western tip of the old province of Oriente in…
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Tortuguero National Park
Costa Rica
Tortuguero is the park of canals and sea turtles on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, reachable only by boat or light…
53 tickets & tours
Costa Rica, for all its reputation, has parks of modest size, Braulio Carrillo and Corcovado being the largest, and makes up for it in number. The ranking uses the areas recorded in the catalogue.