The corridor network · Costa Rica

Where capital builds the corridor.

Costa Rica governs connectivity as national policy. Under the Programa Nacional de Corredores Biológicos, run by SINAC, roughly a third of the country sits inside a declared biological corridor — the connective tissue between its national parks and reserves. A hectare of forest inside a corridor does work the same hectare in isolation cannot: it keeps a migration open, a jaguar's range unbroken, a bellbird's descent intact.

So the highest-leverage place for restoration capital is rarely the best standalone parcel — it is the gap in a corridor, or the intact core inside one that is about to be lost. TERRA reads any parcel against this network and returns a second reading beside the Land Score: a conservation priority, a structural role, a capital tier, and — where it fits — the hospitality fit of a small, low-footprint operation that could fund the work.

How the reading ranks land

Keystone

High-value core inside the network — secure it now.

Corridor

Inside the network with restoration upside — restore / connect.

Buffer

Working matrix with some connectivity — steward the edge.

Frontier

Little mapped connectivity — standalone opportunity.

Conservation priority (0–100) blends connectivity to the network, the greater of securing intact core or closing a gap, and the urgency of active threats. The hospitality layer is a means, not the end: a small operation on the already-worked ground, sized to carry the restoration — never spending the habitat it depends on.

Declared corridors · 11 in the reference

Corredor Biológico Rincón Cacao

Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)

Dry-forest connectivity binding Rincón de la Vieja to the Cacao volcano and the lowland forests of Santa Rosa, part of the sea-to-summit ACG.

Connects · Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja · Parque Nacional Guanacaste (sector Cacao) · Parque Nacional Santa Rosa

10.87, -85.39

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Corredor Biológico Pájaro Campana

Área de Conservación Arenal-Tempisque (ACAT)

An altitudinal corridor carrying the three-wattled bellbird's migration from the Monteverde cloud forest down to the Gulf of Nicoya mangroves.

Connects · Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde · Golfo de Nicoya

10.20, -84.87

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Corredor Biológico San Juan–La Selva

Área de Conservación Huetar Norte (ACAHN)

The northern-lowlands corridor for the great green macaw, linking Braulio Carrillo's forests to the binational San Juan basin.

Connects · Estación Biológica La Selva · Refugio Maquenque · Río San Juan (Indio-Maíz, Nicaragua)

10.64, -84.19

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Corredor Biológico Paso de las Lapas

Área de Conservación Pacífico Central (ACOPAC)

The central-Pacific corridor for the scarlet macaw, connecting Carara's lowland forest to the interior hills.

Connects · Parque Nacional Carara · Cerros de Turrubares · Cordillera piedmont

9.87, -84.71

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Corredor Biológico Montes del Aguacate

Área de Conservación Pacífico Central (ACOPAC)

A piedmont corridor tying the central volcanic range to the Pacific slope across the Aguacate hills.

Connects · Cordillera Volcánica Central · Cerros de Turrubares · Pacífico Central

10.05, -84.57

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Corredor Biológico Volcánica Central–Talamanca

Área de Conservación Central / La Amistad-Pacífico (ACC / ACLAP)

One of the country's oldest corridors, bridging the Central Volcanic Cordillera to the Talamanca massif.

Connects · Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo · Volcán Irazú / Turrialba · Parque Internacional La Amistad

9.87, -83.70

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Corredor Biológico Barbilla–Destierro (Ruta del Jaguar)

Área de Conservación La Amistad-Caribe (ACLAC)

A keystone jaguar-movement corridor across the central Caribbean slope, part of the Mesoamerican Paseo Pantera.

Connects · Parque Nacional Barbilla · Cordillera de Talamanca · Caribbean lowlands

9.91, -83.47

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Corredor Biológico Talamanca–Caribe

Área de Conservación La Amistad-Caribe (ACLAC)

The descent from the La Amistad highlands to the south-Caribbean coast and its reefs.

Connects · Parque Internacional La Amistad · Refugio Gandoca-Manzanillo · Parque Nacional Cahuita

9.70, -82.81

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Corredor Biológico Alexander Skutch

Área de Conservación La Amistad-Pacífico (ACLAP)

A General-valley corridor around the naturalist's Los Cusingos reserve, reconnecting Talamanca's foothills to the river.

Connects · Reserva Los Cusingos · Cordillera de Talamanca · Río General

9.40, -83.63

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Corredor Biológico Paso de la Danta

Área de Conservación Pacífico Central / Osa (ACOPAC / ACOSA)

Baird's-tapir connectivity from the coastal ridge down to the Ballena coast at Uvita and Dominical.

Connects · Fila Costeña / Talamanca foothills · Parque Nacional Marino Ballena · Costa Ballena

9.22, -83.72

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Corredor Biológico Osa

Área de Conservación Osa (ACOSA)

The peninsular corridor holding Corcovado's lowland rainforest in contact with Piedras Blancas across the Osa.

Connects · Parque Nacional Corcovado · Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas · Humedal Térraba-Sierpe

8.72, -83.48

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A curated set of well-documented corridors with a national spread — not the full ~50-corridor registry. Every corridor here is real; its screening extent is approximate, a first pass to confirm against the official SINAC / PNCB record. Draw or search a parcel in the engine to read its place in the network, its role, and where the capital goes.