
Northern Region, Costa Rica
Bijagua de Upala, Costa Rica, a small agricultural town sitting in the mountain valley between Volcán Tenorio and Volcán Miravalles in Costa Rica's Northern Highlands, is the gateway community to Río Celeste — the impossibly turquoise waterfall and river inside Tenorio Volcano National Park that has become one of the most photographed natural wonders in Central America — and is itself one of the most genuinely intact rural communities drawing an emerging international circle of nature-lovers and wildlife enthusiasts who found it before the crowds did.
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