Welcome to Oro Verde Private Nature Reserve and to our wonderful tropical rainforest, where you'll find some of the finest birding, hiking, horseback riding and nature tours on the Southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica!
Dawn is announced here by a resounding chorus of howler monkeys called congos in Spanish. They sound like a cross between a dog, a pig and a car wreck! You cannot help but to smile when they greet you!
Oro Verde's guests enjoy hundreds of bird species, including toucans and parrots, trogons and motmots, crested guans, manakins, chachalacas and more in Costa Rica's very finest birding region. The most recent Christmas Bird Count, which included many of Oro Verde's bird species, won top national honors in a little country that is home to over 850 of them!
Giant, bright blue morpho butterflies (morfos) dance across your jungle path as you encounter other wonderful forest creatures such as our white-faced Capuchin monkeys (monos cariblancos), tayras (tolomucos), tree sloths (perezosos), coatis (pizotes), red-tailed squirrels (ardillas coliroja), anteaters(tamanduas), pacas(tepezcuintles), agoutis(guatusas) and more.
Located only 18 km (10 miles) south of Dominical, at an elevation of 300-670 meters (1,000-2,200 feet), Oro Verde overlooks Ballena Marine National Park and its miles of awesome, isolated beaches. Here, Costa Rica's lush tropical mountains kneel to the sea, providing a nearly constant light, refreshing breeze.
At Oro Verde, Mother Nature gently takes you over. You quickly fall into her natural rhythm and your mind and body become one with the surrounding rainforest.
That is the purpose of your trip here.
Oro Verde is simply ¡Pura Vida!
