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Mauricio Valverde Arce
Santa Elena, the village serving the area around Monteverde, normally hums with visitors hopping from backpacker hostels to restaurants and attractions, such as the Serpentario snake zoo (right). Now the streets are empty.
The Red Cross in Santa Elena is a small outpost that supports Monteverde’s state-run clinic with basic medical care and emergencies.
A hanging bridge at Selvatura Adventure Park in 2012. Normally the park, which is currently closed, offers canopy zip line tours, including a kilometer-long Superman cable, popular with tourists.
David Rodriguez, 34, is a bird-watching guide and biologist who was expecting a busy high season in March and April. Because of the pandemic, all of his tours have been cancelled. He doesn’t know when he’ll be working again.
Garbage bags cover a sign for the Catarata de Murciélagos, the Bat Waterfall, indicating that the reserve, opened in 2018, is now closed.