This Unesco’s heritage site of Costa Rica at Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park extends along the border between Panama and Costa Rica that finds four different Indian tribes as inhabitants of this region. ‘The property is an intact part of the geologically young land bridge where the faunas and floras of North and South America have met’.

Unesco observes, ‘The Talamanca Range is a very particular sample of the recent geological history of the Central American Isthmus, the relatively narrow strip of land connecting North and South America and separating the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The property shows impressive marks of Quaternary glacial activity, which has shaped glacial cirques, glacial lakes and deep, “U”-shaped valleys, which cannot be found anywhere else in Central America’.

It is important to notice that, ‘The mosaic includes oak forests, different types of tropical rainforest, cloud forest and the rare high altitude bogs and grasslands. The latter, referred to as “Isthmus Paramo”, is regionally restricted to the property and extremely rich in endemic species. Evolutionary processes triggered a speciation with extraordinary levels of endemism across numerous taxonomic groups. Many endemic species are restricted to single peaks of the mountain range. Ecologically, these peaks can be compared to islands of an archipelago’. Name of one such peak is called Cerro Chirripo, the highest elevation in Costa Rica and all of southern Central America.

Tala-manka is identical with Tala-vana or Tala-forest which is linked to the place of worship of God Animisha as same as La Amistad. The shrine in the name of Animisha also marks a monastery in this name where the Buddha spent a week after his enlightenment. On his way to place of the first sermon, he came across the Tala vana. It is identified with a mountain in this name.

Isthmus Paramo is identical with Parama and Paramartha; while the former means ‘the main’ or ‘the base’ or the ‘soul of things’, the latter identifies a group of spiritual followers known in this name; an ancient dynasty is also found in this name who were worshippers of the God Animisha also identified with Amitabha.

Chirripo seems to be as same as Ciravasi or Cirapa; Capa, name of a woman disciple of the Buddha, was ataying in this Tala-vana.This shows how the ancient migrants from this region went as far as Costa Rica from their homeland at Animisha Cetiya.