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Gaza is now known as South Border area between the border line drawn parallel Panama and another at a distance of two kilometers into the interior of Costa Rica.
It was initially formalized by Decree No. 3 of October 29, 1914, which states as an area of 50 km wide along the border with the Republic of Panama. Subsequently undergoes a series of amendments to that Law of Lands and Settlement, number 2825 of October 14, 1961, are established as inalienable and not subject to denunciation or possession purchased those lands within an area of 2 km wide along the border with Panama, except those who were under the domain private, with legitimate title.
The basic functions for which these lands lie decreed in homeland defense and national security and safety controls, customs, immigration and border traffic. Moreover, the border has become important in other areas (social, economic, cultural, environmental), the dynamics of relationships that develop there.
Within the La Amistad Conservation Area - Pacific (ACLAP), the Southern Border Area covers a total area of 15,950 ha, of which 53% are protected under a management category such as La Amistad International Park (24%) Protection Zone and Tables (23%).
The Gaza Border South ACLAP contained in the seven life zones, corresponding to the rain forest and Moist Forests very different altitude and two transitions. Has altitudes ranging from 500 m.s.n.m. (River Corridor) to 3200 m.s.n.m. (Cerro Bine). It also has a range of precipitation ranging from 4000 mm to 8000 mm per year.
Currently in this area is sheltered part of the State Natural Heritage, which consists of forests and forest lands within areas declared inalienable South of the border. Which provide a range of environmental services to surrounding communities and help to preserve ecological processes and biodiversity safeguard the border area.
However, pressure from human activities, especially deforestation in order to increase the coffee growing areas and illegal timber harvesting in the forest fringe, become the greatest threat to natural resources and threaten the area to disrupt the connectivity between ecosystems and the preservation of a healthy and ecologically balanced environment for the residents of the border area and their descendants.
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