Services
On the road San Jose - Guapiles you will observe the scenic beauty of the National Park, where we recommend visiting the Quebrada González Sector, which has three trails through the rainforest. These trails have interpretive stations and scenic sightseeing places: Las Palmas with a distance of 0.93 miles (1.5 km); El Ceibo 0.6 miles (1 km) long and 1.55 miles (2.5 km) and Botarrama with 1.5 miles (2.5 km); also you can enjoy the sightseeing place to to observe Río Sucio River. This sector of the park has potable water, sanitation services, lunch areas, information on the site and parking lot.
In Barva Volcano Sector there are four trails: Cacho Venado, Laguna Barva, Copey and Mirador Vara Blanca, with a total length of 6.2 miles (10 km) and where you can enjoy different types of forest. In the place you can have drinking water, sanitation services, tables for lunch and a camping area.
Attractions
In general the Braulio Carrillo National Park has a vegetation of evergreen forest of great density and botanical complexity. Most of the park is covered by primary forest, where there are about 6,000 species of plants representing half of all nationwide recorded species.
The manú caoba (Caryocar costaricensis), mahogany (Caoba, Swietenia microphylla), oak (Quercus costaricensis), caobilla (Guarea rhopalacarpa) and sparrowhawk (Gavilán, Pentaclethra macroloba) are relatively abundant.
There is also the botarrama (Vochysia ferruginea), ceiba (Ceiba pentandra), yos (Sapium pittieri), lorito (Weinmannia pinnata) and ojoche (Brosimun costaricanum). In the area of Barva Volcano, flora features species like cipresillo (Escallonia poasana), candelillo (magnolia poasana) and white oak (Quercus sp.).
The park has great diversity of fauna where it highlights the rich avifauna represented by 515 species of resident and migratory birds. They stand out the king of vultures (Sarcoramphus papa), bell bird (Procnias tricarunculata), goldfinch (Myadestes melanops) and quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno).
Among mammal species stand white-faced monkeys (Cebus capuchinus), Colorado (Ateles geoffroyi) and Howler (Aullador, Alouatta palliata); tapir (Tapirus bairdii), puma (Puma concolor), jaguar (Panthera onca), peccary (Saino, Tayassu peccary), colmenero bear (Tamandua tetradactyla), mountain goat (Central American Red Brocket) and coyote (Canis latrans).