Tortuguero which can be translated as Land of Turtles, is a village on the Northern Caribbean coast of
Costa Rica in the Limón Province. It gave its name to the neighboring
Tortuguero National Park. The village is situated on a sand bar island,
separated from the mainland by Tortuguero River and bordering the Caribbean
Sea. Tortuguero is renowned for its navigable canals that run through the
rainforest in the national park, and has such earned the nickname of 'Central
America's Amazon'
