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To visit the Tenorio National Park is to see nature at its weirdest. Brilliant cerulean lagoons, glowing azure waterfalls and clear rivers that run blue as their waters merge are only some of what you ll see on the trails weaving through Tenorio National Park. Other intrigues include thermal geysers, bubbling mud pots, and hot springs along two trails.
Twin rivers escape from springs underneath the Tenorio Volcano, their clear waters twist away down the valley through the Tenorio National Park. As the rivers merge, their waters churn into a fluorescent blue; a chemical reaction caused by the crystallization of copper sulfate, colloidal silica and sulfur.
In the foothills of the Tenorio Volcano, near the course of the Celeste River, the Maleku indigenous people are claiming their rightful share of benefits generated by the thriving ecotourism circuit in northern Costa Rica.