Cocos Island is one of the best places in the world to dive │ costadevelopers

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Thousands of scientists have visited the Cocos Island for years to explore its unparalleled biodiversity.

The ranking of the 85 best places for diving posted on the website 20minutos.es, a renowned site where published lists compiled by the information that its users share on the site, on this list Costa Rica appears two times.

According to the site, each country has a pair of destinations ideal for diving in Costa Rica were catalogued Cocos Island and Puerto Viejo in the province of Limón on the Caribbean coast, the first ranked in position 20 and the second in 35.

Sometimes previous Cocos Island was nominated for the seven #wonders of the #natural world, as this is a site of lush vegetation and abundant life marina, which has varied species, from sharks, striped, moray eels, turtles, Octopus, a significant range of fish, whales have been found occasionally also.

Experts say that in the tropical waters of the place an extensive coral formation of multiple colors, sponges and other species there is endemic.

In Costa Rica visit multiple excursions are organized for lovers of scuba diving in Cocos Island, the journey from Costa Rican soil until the island takes approximately 532 km from Cabo Blanco in the Costa Rican Pacific coast.

Island was proclaimed by #UNESCO as world heritage and RAMSAR as an important wetland international.

On the other hand, one of the most popular sites on the Caribbean coast, Puerto Viejo, highlights its temperate waters and its coral reef as significant and attractive items for those who enjoy this sport.

On this site you can see large manta rays, dolphins, turtles and fish species.

"85 Best places for diving in the world" list displays also beautiful photographs of the places in #UnitedStates, #Mexico, #Australia, #Spain,#Egypt, among many others.

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Isla of coconut will be patrimony of the State

Coco Island was declared World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1997 and renovated in 2002.

ACMIC (Regional Direction of the Area of Coco Island marine conservation) prepares an administrative file that will be sent to the Executive Director of the national system of Conservation Areas (SINAC) and the Attorney General of the Republic to give continuity to the process that would culminate with the assignment of the Cocos Island as Natural Heritage of State.

The Ministry of finance urged environmental authorities proceed to register these islands as property of the State in the system of registration and control of assets (SIBINET) as State assets.

Works include highly complicated topographical surveys, with the existence of 225 Islands and an extension of 616, 32 km2; which required an outlay of the extremely high status, with a specific game to do so, also requested the support of the registry program of regularization and cadastre for a topographic survey in the Mainland of the island as being part of the National Park and world heritage.

On 12 of September of the year 2012 through an Executive Decree was declared area registered District 10, Cocos Island 1 Puntarenas of 6 province of Puntarenas counties, and the registry issued a respective real estate certificate for Cocos Island with date of July 2012.

Isla del Coco is located 550 kilometers off the Costa Rican coast, is the only tropical region in the Eastern Pacific which has a tropical humid forest. It has also become an ideal laboratory for the study of biological processes and site for thousands of scientists worldwide.

The seabed of Cocos Island is famous, and many divers estimate is of best in the world for the observation of pelagic species of large dimensions, sharks, rays, dolphins and tuna.

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