Chirripó National Park gets new signage
Thanks to the leadership of Park Ranger Bernal Valderramos and the association ProParques, visitors to the Southern Zone’s Chirripó National Park, home to Costa Rica’s highest mountain, will have an easier time navigating, with repaired, updated and added signage.
The improvements are part of ProParque’s Project Leaders program, which seeks to shed light on the great work done by many of Costa Rica’s park rangers while helping promote future national park improvement projects.
Each year, ProParques selects from a group of project proposals. Winning projects receive funding from the non-profit group.
The Chirripó project will repair 55 damaged and aging signs, and install 60 new ones on the park’s network of hiking trails. Thanks in part to the repairs, Chirripó was awarded a “Blue Flag” ecological award this year, the first time the park has won Costa Rica’s seal of sustainability.
Some 7,000 people visit the park each year.
You may be interested

Costa Rican diet contains too much salt, Health Ministry says
Alejandro Zúñiga - March 9, 2021The average Costa Rican adult consumes twice the recommended value of salt each day, according to the Health Ministry. Ticos ingest…

Costa Rica creates commission to address gender unemployment gap
Alejandro Zúñiga - March 9, 2021In context of International Women's Day, Costa Rican leaders on Monday signed a decree to create a commission to address…

Vaccinated people don’t have to self-isolate after Covid contact
Alejandro Zúñiga - March 8, 2021People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 won’t have to isolate if they are a close contact to someone who…