Poas Volcano National Park - Admission Ticket
Overview
Poás volcano represents the geothermal forces that shaped Costa Rica. The sulfuric, bubbling green rain-fed lake at the bottom is surrounded by smoke and steam rising from fumaroles when the mist and clouds clear.
- 🌋 The crater is 1,050 feet (320 meters) deep, making it the largest active crater in the world.
- 💧 Water from the lake seeps through cracks in hot rock, creating pockets of steam.
- 🌡️ Geysers can shoot up to 820 feet (250 meters) high when pressure exceeds the weight of the water above.
- ⚠️ New safety features are in place to protect visitors during periods of heavy activity.
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Duration: 3 hours
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- Entrance fee to Poas Volcano National Park
- Parking fee ($6 each car)
- Private transportation
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Poas VolcanoThe Poas is a volcano that rises to 2,708 metres above sea level, since 1989 has increased markedly the emission of gases causing acid rain phenomena that have damaged the flora in some sectors of the Park and surrounding agricultural plantations to the area. At the top there are two craters, the principal of 1.5 km in diameter and 300 deep, and the Botos lagoon, cold water and source purely rain, that drain into the Caribbean by the Angel river, tributary of the Sarapiqui River. Today the volcano emits large amount of gas and water vapor from the different fumaroles that are located in the inner cone of the crater. Identified several volcanoes, the Chompipe 2259 m above sea level, the Turu 2139 metres above the level of the sea, Cerro Cacho Negro at 2250 m and the Barva which has several craters, the well-known Tres Marias at an average altitude of 1725 meters.