The reserve is located 90 km (60 miles), from San Jose, on the right side of Grande de Tarcoles River following the coastal highway. It takes about 1 hour to get there from Manuel Antonio. Carara, the evergreen complexity and beauty.

Carara has the ten finest hardwood and softwood of Costa Rica, which are: crabwood. Spanish cedar, rain tree, cojoba costaricense, hymenea courbaril acosmium panamense, purpleheart, and tabebuia rosea.

Carara is home to the largest population of Red Macaws in the country, and it is very common to see them flying by. Also, we will go to Tarcoles River bridge, where hundreds of crocodiles are lying on the sand banks.