Barú River
Tucked in the mountains of the south Pacific coastline of Costa Rica, lies the lowland tropical rainforest of the Baru River. Its beautiful & unique headwaters originate along a high mountain ridge which towers high above the Baru River valleys, bringing cloudforest rains, epic waterfalls & lush rainforest-filtered waters to the lower forests, wetlands, creeks & rivers - which flow directly out to the ocean in Dominical.
The Barú watershed reaches the Pacific near Dominical, which makes upstream land use directly relevant to downstream water quality, sediment, beach dynamics, river-mouth health, tourism, fisheries, surf culture, and marine ecosystems. The public education opportunity is to help every resident, renter, land project, farm, business, and visitor ask:
Where does my water go?
Water is a public good. River channels are part of the public domain. Watershed care is therefore not only private land management; it is shared responsibility