When looking for a place to visit, you may be uncertain about South and Central America. Fortunately, the currency exchange rates are cheaper than you would think, making these regions affordable spots to vacation on a budget.
While not all these countries in South and Central America are equally safe or economically stable (some suffer from ever-increasing inflation), we want to guide you to some of the best places to visit where you can find
affordable sights and accommodations.
You can find some of the cheapest places to visit in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Chile.
Granada, Nicaragua
Abstract
We have been field observers of tropical insects on four continents and, since 1978, intense observers of caterpillars, their parasites, and their associates in the 1,260 km
2 of dry, cloud, and rain forests of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. ACG’s natural ecosystem restoration began with its national park designation in 1971. As human biomonitors, or “insectometers,” we see that ACG’s insect species richness and density have gradually declined since the late 1970s, and more intensely since about 2005. The overarching perturbation is climate change. It has caused increasing ambient temperatures for all ecosystems; more erratic seasonal cues; reduced, erratic, and asynchronous rainfall; heated air masses sliding up the volcanoes and burning off the cloud forest; and dwindling biodiversity in all ACG terrestrial ecosystems. What then is the next step as climate change descends on ACG’s many small-scale successes in sustainable bi