When finally in the soil they start depraving the host of its nourishment, while getting themselves wood hard and strangling the host to death. As the shoot is growing up, the roots are reaching down around the host trunk. These different species of Ficus are sprouting their seeds high up in debris between branches of a host tree. The real bad guys here are the strangler figs though. Hollow trunk of strangler figs © E.Ritzinger Hope these month by month maps of rain and dry periods in Costa Rica provinces can help you to time plan your vacation: This cause a lot of rain pouring down on south-east and north-east coasts, while most parts of Guanacaste province, shielded by the mountains, get extensive dry periods. Mountains creates also obstacles on the way of humid air masses carried by trade winds blowing over this narrow land patch between Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. From dense tropical rain forests in lowland changing to alpine tundra with no trees on the highest tops. The steep elevations themselves make the temperatures and humidity change very fast and so does the vegetation. The central regions of country are elevated by a few mountain ranges with the highest pick of 3,820m (12,533 ft). It’s easy to think that there should be no big differences in climate, but the nature would prove you wrong. Map by Īrea-wise Costa Rica is smaller than the state of West Virginia or, if you are more familiar with European geographical references, about the size of Slovakia or 1/6 of Italy. Green areas are covered by tropical rain forests, while red area in Guanacaste province is seasonaly dry region with a few remaing patches of tropical dry forests.
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