Hotel Finca Valverde is among the oldest farms in Monteverde. The rooms and cabins at Hotel Finca Valverde will allow you to enjoy pristine forest in the most comfortable and quiet way just by looking out your window. The hotel is owned by the Valverde family, one of the first to settle in the area. On their still productive land, the Valverde's harvest coffee for export, as well as most of the vegetables that are served in their small hotel. Straddling the Continental Divide at 4,662 feet, the Santa Elena and Monteverde cloud forests offer one of the most interesting places to visit in Costa Rica. In this Costa Rican rain forest are found more than 100 species of mammals, 400 species of birds, tens of thousands of insects and 2,500 species of plants. The area is known as one of the most outstanding wildlife refuges in the New World Tropics.