Guayabo National Monument

Guayabo is one of the archaeological sites of Costa Rica. It is part of the culture of a lost population residing in Central America and the Caribbean basin. Some elements, especially in architecture have come in South America and other features seem to derive from North American cultures, as the area where you will find Costa Rica has served for thousands of years as a natural bridge between two previously separated continents .
  
The importance of architectural Guayabo been known since the fourteenth century, when several expeditions in the region made incredible discoveries, developing one of the first exhibitions of archaeological Costa Rica, which has been exhibited at the Museum of American History in Madrid (1982).
    
   Secondary vegetation grows freely in this area, near the major archaeological sites.
Most species of flora in this area are the result of years of logging and replanting new species.
 
    
Wildlife is poor due to the small size of the monument, but it is possible to identify several types of birds, insects and reptiles.