its peaks are sky islands for many species of plants and animals, snowfall happens from time to time in the peak. The great height of Cerro Chirripó relative to its surroundings is also evidenced by its particularly high prominence of 12,228 ft, ranked 38th in the world. To get to the summit requires a walk along a 16 km uphill trail from the town of San Gerardo de Rivas to the park ranger's refuge in the Crestones sector and for there a 5 km walk to the peak.After summiting, hang out in Costa Rica and the Chirripó National Park in the middle portion of the Talamanca Range (also called Cordillera de Talamanca) approximately 30 km northeast from the city of San Isidro del General, protects a number of important ecosystems on the Costa Rican Pacific slope. With a particular climate that includes only
two seasons, a dry one approximately from December to April and a wet one from May to November. This national park encompasses parts of three Provinces in Costa Rica - San Jose, Limón and Cartago, and contains five different ecosystems: lowland tropical wet forest, premontane tropical wet forest, lower montane wet forest, montane wet forest and subalpine wet forest.
