Centro de Conservación de Santa Ana

Centro de Conservación de Santa Ana
Centro de Conservación de Santa Ana
TypeUrban park. Zoo, Botanical Garden. Museum
LocationUruca, Santa Ana. Costa Rica
Coordinates9°56′12″N 84°11′34″W / 9.936667°N 84.192778°W / 9.936667; -84.192778
Area560,000 square metres (140 acres)
Created1976
Closed11th May 2024
StatusClosed Permanently

Centro de Conservación de Santa Ana (Santa Ana Conservation Center, CCSA) was a wilderness area and zoo, of approximately 52 hectares (130 acres), located in the Uruca district, in the canton of Santa Ana, Costa Rica. It had an average altitude of 900 meters and was bounded to the east by the bed of the river Uruca. The site included patches of one of the last remnants of dry tropical forest in the Central Valley, trails, Agricultural Historical Museum, a soccer field, picnic area, a species of wild and domestic animals and a nursery of forest species.

Administered by a conservation nonprofit foundation called Fundación Pro Zoológicos (Fundazoo) since 1994, which also ran the Simón Bolivar National Zoo, and Botanic Garden, until the expiration of their contract on the 10th of may 2024, it was officially closed on the 11th of May of 2024.