Perhaps the most notable of these animals is the quetzal, for whom the park was named. Although the bird is renowned for being elusive and skittish, park authorities claim that the quetzal is easier to spot here than in the cloud forests of Monteverde and Santa Elena, which lay to the north.
Mount Aconcagua is the highest mountain on the South American continent. Its summit is 22,834 feet (6,960 meters) above sea level. It is located in Argentina. Image of Mount Aconcagua copyright by iStockPhoto and Cristian Lazzari.
The Pacific Plate is seismically active beneath Denali, a tectonic region that is known as the McKinley cluster. Denali has a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190.5 m) above sea level, making it the highest peak in North America and the northernmost mountain above 6,000 meters elevation in the world.Measured from base to peak at some 18,000 ft (5,500 m), it is also the largest of any mountain entirely above sea level.he first verifiable ascent to Denali's summit was achieved on June 7, 1913, by climbers Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper, and Robert Tatum, who went by the South Summit.