Hotel Info
Uvita de Osa, Puntarenas

Is located in front of the wonderful Marino Ballena national park, just 17 km south
from Dominical, on the newly completed Costanera Sur Highway, the one head you to
Palmar Norte.

Whales & Dolphins Ecolodge is a 4 stars hotel located just 45 minutes from the Manuel
Antonio national park (one of the richest flora and fauna park in Costa Rica), also
just 30 minutes away from the community of Palmar.

The park is located by the southern Pacific coast, between the mouth of Higueron
Morete river and Point Pinas, District of Ballena Bay, Cantón of Osa, Province of
Puntarenas. The marine limit is an imaginary line that surrounds the reefs formed by
the outer area of Uvita Point, Ballena Island, Tres Hermanas, and its surroundings,
originated at the mouth of Higueron Morete river and ending at Point Pinas. The Park
has a surface of 5.375 marine hectares and 110 terrestrial hectares. It was created on
February 6, 1989 and was the first Marine National Park in Latin America. This protected
area preserves important habitats such as sandy beaches, rocky beaches, estuaries,
mangroves, cliffs, islands, rocky shoals, Point Uvita and coral reefs, all of them
important environments for the reproduction of the marine biodiversity.