Cocos Island National Park travel guide

For the Australian islands, see Cocos (Keeling) Islands. For the island off the southern tip of Guam, see Cocos Island (Guam).
Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island located off the shore of Costa Rica. It constitutes district 11 (one of 13 districts) of Puntarenas Canton of Puntarenas Province http://www.hacienda.go.cr/centro/datos/Educacion%20ciudadana/Brochoure%20N%2021%20%20c%C3%B3digos%20tributarios.doc. It should not be confused with the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is one of the National Parks of Costa Rica. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, 550 km (330 mi.) from the Pacific shore of Costa Rica, at Its area is 23,85 km² (16 mi²), about 8x3 km (5x1.8 mi), more or less in a rectangular shape. Wafer Station (Estación Wafer) is located at Wafer Bay (Bahía Wafer) on the north coast. Its perimeter is about 21 km (12½ mi). Surrounded by deep waters with counter-currents, it is admired by scuba divers for its populations of Hammerhead sharks, rays and dolphins. Cocos Island is located on almost the exact opposite side of the globe as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands south of Sumatra. (...)