Los Quetzales National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Los Quetzales), located 97 kilometers from San Isidro de El General, in Costa Rica, was created in 2006 by decree 32981-MINAE.
Stretching across 50.00 square kilometres (19.31 sq mi), the national park has limited facilities including a small ranger station and a single, highly mountainous main road.
The park predominantly protects cloud forest and is named for the Resplendent Quetzal.,[4][5] which inhabits the area and is the national bird of Guatemala.
[1][6] When the Ramsar site was designated in 2003, the area of the park was still part of Los Santos Forest Reserve.
The northeast border of the protected area corresponds partially to the Route 2, Carretera Interamericana Sur (South Inter-American Highway), which is part of the Pan-American Highway and used to access the park from either the north coming from the Greater Metropolitan Area (San José and Cartago) or from the south (Pérez Zeledón).