Zoo
Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Costa Rica 53 spp. present
Parque Nacional Simón Bolívar (Zoológico Simón Bolívar) is an urban park of approximately 14 hectares, located in downtown San José, Costa Rica. It is the oldest botanical garden and zoo in Costa Rica. The name pays homage to Latin American national founder Simón Bolívar. It is administered by a conservation nonprofit foundation called Fundazoo. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
9.939° N 84.073° W
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Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
High
Species present
53
speciesOpened
1916
Size
Medium
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar?
San José, Costa Rica
Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar is a zoo or wildlife park in San José, Costa Rica. Its coordinates are 9.939° N, 84.073° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Irazú Volcano National Park, about 25 km away.
What animals can you see at Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar?
53 species
Citizen-science photos record 53 species at Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar, including Black River Turtle, Green and Black Dart-poison Frog, Common Caiman, Fer-de-lance and Central American Rattlesnake. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar in the wild?
Black River Turtle: Tortuguero National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar also live in the parks and cities we cover: Black River Turtle (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Tortuguero National Park), Green and Black Dart-poison Frog (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Carara National Park) and Common Caiman (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Tortuguero National Park).
When did Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar open and how big is it?
Opened 1916, 3.4 ha
Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar, a zoo or wildlife park in San José, Costa Rica, opened in 1916 and covers about 3.4 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 53 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)