Global Network of National Geoparks

Rio Coco UNESCO Global Geopark

Celebrating Earth Heritage The area pertains to the western part of the Eastern Chortis Terrane, the rifted continental margin of the North American Plate which developed during the Jurassic separation of the North and South American Plates. The area’s basement mainly consists of sub-greenschist- to greenschist-facies metamorphosed siliciclastic sediments of Paleozoic age. Intensive volcanic acti...