Why visit Tesoro Verde?
- Tesoro Verde… and Corcovado National Park! At Tesoro Verde we have the privilege of having a great location, where our visitors are surrounded by the exhuberant rainforest. Tesoro Verde borders Corcovado National Park, one of the biologically most intense places on earth!
- Tesoro Verde makes you feel at home! We care to offer a hearty service, that will make all our clientes feel welcome at Tesoro Verde.
- Tesoro Verde, more than mere lodging offers an intercultural exchange! When our visitors stay at Tesoro Verde, they get to learn about our community’s way of living and our rich culture. We share the customs and traditions of our people, so that the visit to Tesoro Verde becomes an enriching intercultural exchange. During your stay you will get the chance to interact through various activities with the people of our community.
- Tesoro Verde is a great example of conservation and sustainable tourism! The Conservationist Association of Tesoro Verde was founded with the mission of conserving the natural beauty that surrounds Los Planes, and at the same time, to responsibly benefit from the natural resources. Thanks to Tesoro Verde Lodge, we will continue preserving the forest, while we prove others that preserving our eco-system allows economic, environmental and social benefits. While you stay at Tesoro Verde you will benefit the community and contribute to the local development.
- Tesoro Verde...a roustic lodge that integraes with the local atmosphere! Tesoro Verde has a beautiful design, where our guests will be surrounded by the picturesque town of Los Planes and the Tropical Rainforest. From your comfortable room, surrounded by large windows, you will admire the greenery that surrounds the lodge and the sounds of the birds singing.
- Tesoro Verde offers a great variety of activities! From Tesoro Verde, our visitors will have access to various activities such as walks along interpreted trails, walks to beautiful waterfalls and natural springs, tours to Caño Island for snorkeling or diving, among others!
Tesoro Verde Lodge…
Building up a dream!
Four years ago, in 1998, a group of women of Los Planes community, which was founded 40 years ago and is formed by 49 families, got together with the idea of improving our own life standard. One of those afternoons at Los Planes community, Xenia Jiménez and Mayra Salazar were sitting in front of the town’s “Casona”, which used to be the National Park’s Guard House. They were dreaming about a more promising future for the community, in which they could be self-supporting, while living in harmony with nature. That afternoon they thought of the idea of transforming the “casona” into an eco-tourism lodge, that would give new opportunities to the community, and at the same time, would promote the conservation of the natural beauties that surround the place. After an intense work of a group of dreamers, today Tesoro Verde Association has 12 ha. of protected forest, with signaled trails and the beautiful Tesoro Verde Lodge, which stands as jewel in the middle of Los Planes community. Tesoro Verde is a group of various local families, that together are contributing to the conservation of the forest, |through environmental education programs organized for and with our neighbors. We also contribute to this cause through our vigilance programs that look after the protection of the forest, against undiscriminating hunting and illegal wood exploitation.
Tesoro Verde borders Corcovado National Park: Great Mountains, Wilderness & Seascapes
Narrow dirt roads traversing steep cliffs that drop off the breezy coastal lowlands, strings of deserted beaches accessible only by foot or boat – the geography and exuberance of the vast Southern Zone make it one of Costa Rica’s most exciting and untouched regions for travel, adventure and soul-searching.
The Península de Osa reaches out of southwestern Costa Rica into the Pacific Ocean. Its large virgin rainforests receive 4000 millimeters of precipitation a year. Due to incredible wealth of tropical flora and fauna, scientists urged the creation of a national park to protect the peninsula, and in 1975, 108,022 acres in its western corner were declared Corcovado National Park. Corcovado contains eight unique habitats ranging from mountain forest to swamp. In the park, scientists have identified at least 500 species of trees, 285 birds, 139 mammals, 116 amphibians and reptiles and 16 freshwater fishes.
The main highlights in this area are:
· The national parks and reserves: Corcovado National, Isla del Caño, Tesoro Verde, among others.
· Great jungle trails
· Unique jungle lodges, in communion with nature
· Spectacular beaches
· Exotic flora and fauna
· Snorkeling, fishing