La Amistad International Park

La Amistad International Park
IUCN category II (national park)
The cloud forest
La Amistad International Park area
Location	Panama-Costa Rica
Coordinates	09°24′18″N 82°56′10″W / 9.40500°N 82.93611°W / 9.40500; -82.93611
Area	239 km2 Pacific, 1753 km2 Caribbean
Established	September 6, 1988
Governing body	SINAC in Costa Rica
class=notpageimage| Location in Central America
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Type	Natural
Criteria	vii, viii, ix, x
Designated	1983 (7th session)
Reference no.	205bis
Region	Latin America and the Caribbean
Extensions	1990

The La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish Parque Internacional La Amistad, formerly the La Amistad National Park, is a transboundary protected area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica (Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Areas) and Panama, following a recommendation by UNESCO after the park's inclusion in the World Heritage Site list in 1983.^[1] The park and surrounding biosphere reserve is one of the most outstanding conservation areas in Central America, preserving a major tract of tropical forest wilderness.^[1] It is world-renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and endemism.^[1]