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Cocos Island National Park
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Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island located off the shore of Costa Rica. It should not be confused with the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is one of the National Parks of Costa Rica.
Tourists are allowed ashore only with permission of island rangers, and are not permitted to camp or sleep on the island. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, 550 km (330 mi.) from the Pacific shore of Costa Rica.
Its area is about 23 km² (15 mi²), about 8x3 km (5x1.8 mi), more or less in a rectangular shape. Cerro Iglesias, the summit, is 671 m high and rises in the south-western part of the island. Its perimeter is about 21 km (12½ mi). Cocos Island and its surrounding rocks are the only emergent islands of the Cocos Plate, one of the minor tectonic plates. Surrounded by deep waters with counter-currents, it is admired by scuba divers for its populations of Hammerhead sharks, rays and dolphins. Cocos Island is located on almost the exact opposite side of the globe as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands south of Sumatra.
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