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Rugged cliffs south of Playa Delfin, where the road ends.

 

PLAYA DELFÍN

RAINFOREST RESERVE
and
RESEARCH STATION
 Rugged cliffs south of Playa Delfín, where the road ends.

    Playa Delfín, a Rainforest Reserve and Research Station, is located on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica on the south side of the Golfo Dulce.  Wildlife including ocelots, jaguarundis, king vultures, mealy parrots, river otters, silky anteaters, tamanduas, and two- and three-toed sloths live in the rainforest.  The protected area extends for almost a kilometer along the Golfo Dulce, a rare and beautiful gulf.  Very little research has been done on the Golfo Dulce, a tropical fjord, the sole anoxic basin on the entire Pacific coast of the Americas.