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
High-value core inside the network — secure it now.
Inside the network with restoration upside — restore / connect.
Working matrix with some connectivity — steward the edge.
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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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
Read a parcel here →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.