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Lying on the Pacific Ocean, some 20 km offshore from the Osa Peninsula at Drake Bay, Isla del Caño or Caño Island is an amazing marine biological reserve in Costa Rica. Part of Puntarenas province and just northeast of the Corcovado National Park, Isla del Caño is an island of considerable geographical and archeological importance. Fifteen kilometers from the Port of San Pedrillo, this 300-hectare piece of land was formerly a burial ground dating back to the pre-Columbian era. Evidence of this island’s history is found in the incredible stone spheres that have been found here, all of which are hand carved and perfectly rounded.
On the island itself, not much wildlife or fauna is found. However, Isla del Caño is often used as a migratory passage by birds who fly to warmer climes from the northern hemisphere during the winter. Aside from the evergreen forest found on the island, the only other trees growing out here include the rubber tree, the wild cocoa tree and some shrubs and bushes. Besides birds like the Osprey, Black Hawk, Cattle Egret and Phalarope, some common animals and reptiles on the island are; pacas, Boa constrictors, possums, tree frogs, pigs, moths, beetles, bats, mosquitoes, rats and lizards.
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