Spaans leren in Monteverde

Monteverde is the perfect site for students hoping to combine language, culture and nature-oriented activities. The Monteverde zone, comprised of ten towns with 8,000 people, is situated on the Continental Divide in the Tilarán Cordillera at an elevation of 5,600 feet extending towards both coasts. A five hour bus ride from the capital city of San José, Monteverde has come to represent a much wider area around it - at least to the tourist industry, for whom this is one of the better known destinations in the country due to the could forest reserves of Monteverde and Santa Elena. The region is renowned for its commitment to the sustainable development of the community and the conservation of the cloud forest reserves.

A cloud forest is a highland forest characterized by nearly 100% humidity throughout the year; as moisture-filled winds sweep up the high elevations of these reserves, they condense and cool to form clouds, bathing the forest in a constant soft mist. In Monteverde the average daily temperature ranges between 18ºC (65ºF) to 21ºC (70 º F).

The Monteverde Cloud Forest spreads over 10,500 hectares of land. More than 100 species of mammals, 400 species of bi rds, including 30 kinds of hummingbirds, tens of thousands of insect species and 2,500 species of plants (420 kinds of orchids), and 120 species of amphibians and reptiles live within the boundaries of Monteverde. The Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves of Costa Rica are acclaimed as one of the most outstanding wildlife refuges in the Tropics.

You can learn Spanish in Costa Rica in three cities:

• Spanish Courses in Flamingo Beach
• Spanish Courses in Heredia
• Spanish Courses in Monteverde