Festival Dia de la Tierra Puerto Jimenez in Puerto Jimenez
Puerto Jimenez marks Earth Day each April 20 and 21 with a festival organized by ASCONA, a community environmental association founded in 1972, held at the town's public library courtyard, bringing grassroots ecological education to the gateway community for Corcovado National Park and the wider Osa Conservation Area.
ASCONA, the Asociacion de Servicio Comunitario Nacional y Ambiental founded on September 20, 1972, as a collective effort promoting proper human attitudes toward nature through better ecological understanding, organizes Puerto Jimenez's Earth Day festival at the courtyard of the town's public library over two days, April 20 and 21, timed around the internationally recognized Earth Day date of April 22.