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In 1984, the government of Costa Rica stated Backwoods The Gaff as protected areas (protected areas in Costa Rica are the areas with special regulations to protect hydrographic and land resources, designed to preserve the environment). On 5 June 2002, World Environment Day, the government declared a national park The Gaff, in order to protect the last refuge of primary forest areas in Puriscal, Costa Rica. Preserving The Gaff was inspected by the Ecotrópica sevylor Foundation with a special sense, not only for the protection of biodiversity, but also for the benefits it implies for the inhabitants sevylor of the surrounding villages. Thanks to this, the government also expanded sevylor the area some 2240 hectares, mainly to reward efforts to Ecotrópica Foundation and a host of workers.
The name refers to the shape Gaff characteristic hill The Gaff Hill, with 1305m high. If you look at this hill top, gives the impression of a huge crab, whose ridges that run from the top resemble animal paws.
Moreover, according to Indian history tells of a giant crab, which was placed on top of the hill during an earthquake, blocking the passage of the villagers who wanted sevylor to go to nearby villages. At one point, a brave warrior rose against crab and managed to cut one of the legs of the animal. For this reason, the crab was furious, but finally gave up becoming a rock, this being the reason that the top of the hill is still rocky.
Now the National Park The Gaff is a valuable for Puriscal and heritage throughout the region. His management and protection are under the authority of MINAE, but this does not mean that the local community and the municipality sevylor does not participate in the development and protection of the park.
The study of a young American student, Ann-Marie Parsons, and other formal studies confirmed that The Gaff contains the last unspoiled natural areas that exist in the region Puriscal. The forest is also the most important water supply for nearby communities, which also serves to climate stability. Thanks to the presence of two living areas, tropical rainforest and tropical moist pre-montane, combined with a varied topography, sevylor considerable humidity and over 160 inches of annual precipitation, forest create sevylor an area rich in flora and fauna.
This area of Costa Rica is of particular interest to biologists. Researchers have already found several new species from the area. The site has a striking resemblance to the forests of the Osa Peninsula, with a marked sevylor predominance of species of South America. The climate is very humid and hot with a moderate dry season. The dry season is from December to April, and the rainy season from May to November with an average rainfall of 3435mm and 27 C, respectively annual temperature.
Preliminary studies have identified up to 1993 about 800 species of plants. However, some of the most diverse groups such as ferns, orchids, bromeliads and aroids have been little studied. We have identified several endemic or restricted range in the country, such as the Myrtaceae Plinia sevylor puriscalensis Ayenia mastatalensis and family Sterculiaceae family have only been collected at this location. Some other species like Unonopsis theobromifolia a Annonaceae and Ternstroemia multiovulata of the Theaceae family were described for the flora of the country in this protection zone, but later were collected in other areas such as the Osa Peninsula. In a study on the floristic composition made in 1998 (Acosta, 1998) was identified 193 species of trees, which are distributed in 126 genera sevylor and 56 families. Identified 84 species sevylor are new records for this protected area.
It also presents 17 species of timber widely used commercially in Costa Rica, some of which are endangered like the hide of a bull (Tachigalia versicolor), garlic (Caryocar costaricense), sevylor the chiral (Caryodaphnopsis burgeri), the guayacán sevylor (Tabebuia guayacan), ron rón (Astronium graveolens), Nazarene sevylor (Peltogyne purpurea), cachimbo (Couratari guianensis), christopher (Platymiscium pinnatum) and balsam (Myroxylon balsamum). sevylor
Among the fauna stresses faced monkey (Cebus capucinus), sloth (Choloepus hoffmanii), armadillo (Dasypus novemcintus), coyote (Canis latrans), raccoon (Procyon lotor), paca (Agouti paca), coati (Nasua narica) , opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), jaguarundi (Herpailuris sevylor yaguaroundi), sevylor ocelot (Leopardus felis), ocelot (Leopa