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Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica, pronounced [re̞ˈpuβ̞lika ð̞e̞ ˈko̞sta ˈrika]) is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the...
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San José
San José (Spanish: San José, pronounced [ˌsan xoˈse]) is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major...
Area:
- 44.62 km² (17.23 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Cartago
Cartago is a city in Costa Rica, about 25 km (15 miles) east of the capital, San José. It is at an elevation of about 1435 m (some 4,707 ft) above sea level, at the base of the Irazú Volcano. Cartago is the capital of Cartago province. The city...
Area:
- 152.68 km² (58.95 mi² )
Time zone(s):
Grecia
Grecia translated means Greece, the country, and Greece being named after the Goddess of beauty from the Roman Empire.
Grecia is the capital city of the canton of Grecia in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito ...
Arenal Volcano
Arenal Volcano, in Spanish Volcán Arenal, is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km north-west of San José, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortuna. The Arenal volcano...
Provinces of Costa Rica
Costa Rica consists of seven provinces (provincias):
The provinces are further divided into cantons (cantones), which are subdivided into districts (distritos).
Alajuela Province
Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country, bordering Nicaragua to the north, and clockwise the provinces Heredia, San José, Puntarenas and Guanacaste. The province covers an area of 9,757.53 km²,...
Area:
- 9,757.53 km² (3767.4 mi² )
Cartago Province
Cartago is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the central part of the country. Bordering provinces are Limón to the east and San José to the west. The capital is Cartago and it was formerly the capital city of Costa Rica until 1823 when the...
Area:
- 3,124 km² (1206 mi² )
Guanacaste Province
Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern part of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. To the north it borders Nicaragua. To the east is the Alajuela Province, and to the southeast is the Puntarenas Province....
Area:
- 10,141 km² (3915.5 mi² )
Heredia Province
Heredia is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country. To the north it borders Nicaragua, to the east is the province Limón, to the south the province San José, and to the west Alajuela. The capital is the city...
Area:
- 2,657 km² (1026 mi² )
Limón Province
Limón is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the eastern part of the country at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It borders from the south clockwise the country Panama, the provinces Puntarenas, San José, Cartago and Heredia, and the country...
Area:
- 9,189 km² (3548 mi² )
Puntarenas Province
Puntarenas is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the western part of the country, covering most of Costa Rica's Pacific Ocean coast, and it is the largest province in Costa Rica. Clockwise from the northwest it borders on the provinces...
Area:
- 11,266 km² (4349.8 mi² )
San José Province
San José is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the central part of the country, and borders (clockwise beginning in the north) the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia, Cartago, Limón and Puntarenas. The provincial capital is San José de Costa...
Area:
- 4,966 km² (1917 mi² )
Barva
Barva is a small city and canton in Costa Rica, located 3 km north of Heredia. It was named in honor of Barvak, an indigenous chief who ruled the area before the arrival of the Spanish. It is divided into six political districts: Barva, Santa Lucía,...
Area:
- 53.8 km² (20.8 mi² )
Liberia
Liberia is a city in Guanacaste, Costa Rica located roughly four hours from San José by bus. Over 35,000 people live in the city. Though small by North American standards, it is quite large in comparison to its Guanacastecan neighbors to the...
Monteverde
Monteverde, Costa Rica (Spanish for 'green mount') is a small town in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. It is often considered a major tourist destination in Costa Rica, primarily frequented by ecotourists drawn by the high biodiversity of its numerous...
Rincón de la Vieja
Rincón de la Vieja is an active andesitic complex volcano in north-western Costa Rica, about 25 km from Liberia, in the province of Guanacaste. Its name means "The Old Woman's Corner", a reference to a local legend about a girl whose lover was...
Poás Volcano
The Poás Volcano, in Spanish Volcán Poás, is an active stratovolcano in central Costa Rica. Poás has erupted 39 times since 1828.
There are two crater lakes near its summit. The northern lake is known as the Laguna Caliente. It is one of the world's...
Irazú Volcano
The Irazú Volcano (Spanish: Volcán Irazú) is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. Its name could come from either the combination of "ara" (point) and "tzu" (Thunder)or a corruption of...
Cerro Chirripó
Cerro Chirripó is the highest mountain in Costa Rica, with an altitude of 3,820 metres. It is located in the Chirripó National Park and is noted for its ecological wealth. The high peaks in this and La Amistad International Park host important areas...
Jacó
Jacￃﾳ is a small city in the Puntarenas province in Costa Rica. It has a population of around 5000 people, including other small towns along the Pacific coast, between Puntarenas and Quepos. The city is visited by many tourists from many countries,...
Limón
Limón, also known as Puerto Limón, is the capital of Limón Province in Costa Rica. It is the country's main Caribbean port city, including the terminals of Limón and Moín, and has a population of around 105,000 (including many neighboring small...
Golfito
This article is about a Costa Rica town. For the ship see TSS Golfito.
The port town of Golfito (literally meaning 'little bay') is located in Puntarenas Province on the southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, near the border of Panama. The town lies...
Puntarenas
Puntarenas, which means "Sandy Point" in Spanish, is the capital and largest city in the province Puntarenas, Costa Rica, at the Pacific coast. The eponymous and oddly shaped province has its largest section in the South, far from the capital.
Its...
Area:
- 10 km² (3.9 mi² )
San Francisco
San Francisco de Dos Rￃﾭos is a district of central San Josￃﾩ, in the southern neighborhoods. 22,000 people live in this highly developed zone of southern San Josￃﾩ, usually known for its several parks (such as Parque Okayama) and relatively quiet...
Nicoya
Nicoya is a town in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province, and one of its most important tourist zones. It serves as a transport hub to Guanacaste's beaches and national parks. According to the 2000 census, the city's population is 13,334—second only to...
La Selva Protected Zone
La Selva Biological Station is the premier ecology research station in Costa Rica, and one of the most important in the tropics worldwide. Located in the northeastern lowlands, La Selva includes a nature reserve that protects about 15 square...
Area:
- 15 km² (5.8 mi² )
Escazú
Escazú, officially San Miguel de Escazú, is the capital city of the canton of Escazú in the province of San José in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the district that includes the city, a subnational entity with 14,815 inhabitants.
The city lies...
Area:
- 4.38 km² (1.69 mi² )
Alajuela
Alajuela is the capital city of the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the district (distrito) that includes the city. Alajuela serves as the capital for the canton of Alajuela, an area much larger than the district. It is...
Area:
- 8.88 km² (3.43 mi² )
Juan Santamaría International Airport
Juan Santamaría International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría) (IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC) is located in Alajuela about 20 km from San José, Costa Rica. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría, a...
Montezuma
Montezuma (9.65° N, 85.07° W) is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica which began as a remote fishing village and has gained popularity since the 1980s among tourists on a budget.
Montezuma is located near the southern tip of the Nicoya...
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa was a farm located in the north-western Guanacaste Province, in Costa Rica. The area nowadays corresponds to the Santa Rosa National Park, with an old hacienda building, "La Casona," as the monument commemorating the fallen heroes of the...
Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica
The Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica (National Theater of Costa Rica) is a theatre located in the central section of San José, Costa Rica. Construction began in 1891, and it opened to the public on October 21, 1897 with a performance of Johann Wolfgang...
Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport
Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Daniel Oduber Quirós) (IATA: LIR, ICAO: MRLB), formerly known as Liberia International Airport, is one of the four international airports in Costa Rica. The airport is...
Atenas
Atenas is the capital city of the canton of Atenas in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito (district) that includes the city. The district of Atenas covers an area of 8.93 km², and has a population of 7,716....
Zarcero
Zarcero is the capital city of the canton of Alfaro Ruiz in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito (district) that includes the city. The district of Zarcero covers an area of 12.01 km², and has a population of 4...
Orotina
Orotina is the capital city of the canton of Orotina in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito (district) that includes the city. The district of Orotina covers an area of 19.99 km², and has a population of 8,550...
Manuel Antonio National Park
Manuel Antonio National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, is a small National Park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and 132 km from...
Tortuguero
Tortuguero, Costa Rica, which can be translated as Land of Turtles, is a village on the Northern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the Limón Province. It gave its name to the neighboring Tortuguero National Park.
The beaches around Tortuguero are key...
Turrialba Volcano
Turrialba Volcano was named after the region of Costa Rica in which the volcano is situated in Turrialba County, Cartago of Costa Rica. There is no clear consensus on the origin of the name Turrialba, but historians disagree with attempts to...
Tobías Bolaños International Airport
Tobías Bolaños International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Tobías Bolaños) (IATA: SYQ, ICAO: MRPV) is one of the four international airports in Costa Rica. The airport is located in the San José district of Pavas. It serves as the main...
Playa Herradura
Playa Herradura is a coastal town on the Pacific Oceanin Costa Rica, located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of Jacó. Since the 1990s, it has received extensive property development by investors from the United States.
Herradura was a sleepy...
Braulio Carrillo National Park
Braulio Carrillo National Park is a National Park of the Volcanic Cordillera Conservation Area in Costa Rica located on the eastern edge of the central volcanic corridor between San José and Puerto Limón. It is accessible from the Guápiles Highway,...
Area:
- 475.8 km² (183.7 mi² )
Tapantí National Park
Tapantí National Park, sometimes called Orosí National Park, is a National Park in the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago. It protects forests to the north of Chirripó National...
Area:
- 583 km² (225 mi² )
Quepos
Quepos is a city in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. It is served by the Quepos-La Managua airport. It is located at around 9°25′55″N 84°9′40″W / 9.43194°N 84.16111°W / 9.43194; -84.16111. It is home to approximately 14,000 people.
Quepos is the...
Santa Ana
Santa Ana is a city in San José Province, Costa Rica. It is located at around 9°56′N 84°11′W / 9.933°N 84.183°W / 9.933; -84.183. The city is the seat of the Santa Ana Canton.
While still in many ways maintaining its traditional feel of a typical...
Miravalles Volcano
The Miravalles Volcano is an andesitic stratovolcano in Costa Rica. The caldera was formed during several major explosive eruptions that produced voluminous dacitic-rhyolitic pyroclastic flows between about 1.5 and 0.6 million years ago. The only...
Orosí Volcano
The Orosí Volcano, in Spanish the Volcán Orosí, is an inactive volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Guanacaste Cordillera near the border with Nicaragua. The area around the volcano is a popular tourist destination, especially for more...
Guanacaste National Park
Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste, is part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site, is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica, from the slopes of the Orosí and Cacao volcanoes west to the...
Palo Verde National Park
The Palo Verde National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Palo Verde is a National Park of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, that contains much of the area of the valley of the Tempisque River and covers an area of 45,492 acres in...
Area:
- 184 km² (71 mi² )
Santa Rosa National Park
Santa Rosa National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, is a National Park, part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage site, in the northern western part of Costa Rica, originally created to protect the scene of the...
Area:
- 387 km² (149 mi² )
Barra Honda National Park
Barra Honda National Park is a national park in the western part of Costa Rica, which forms part of the Tempisque Conservation Area about 12 km (7.46 mi) from the Tempisque River. It was created in 1974 to protect its famous cave systems, under the...
Area:
- 23 km² (8.9 mi² )
Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site
The Area de Conservación Guanacaste, is a World Heritage Site in the northwestern part of Costa Rica, which comprises Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Rincón de la Vieja National Parks and the Junquillal Bay Wildlife Refuge. It formally became part of...
Area:
- 1,470 km² (567.6 mi² )
Juan Castro Blanco National Park
Juan Castro Blanco National Park is a National Park, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica about 100 km north of San José, to the east of Ciudad Quesada in Alajuela Province. It contains the active...
Area:
- 145 km² (56 mi² )
Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge
Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica twenty kilometers south of Los Chiles near the border with Nicaragua in the Alajuela province. The refuge is a...
Area:
- 101.5761 km² (39.21875 mi² )
Corredor Fronterizo Wildlife Refuge
Corredor Fronterizo Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, running through Arenal Huetar Norte, Guanacaste, Central Volcanic and Tortuguero Conservation Areas, in the northern part of Costa Rica running as a 2,000 metre wide strip of land along the...
Arenal Volcano Emergency Forest Reserve
Arenal Volcano Emergency Forest Reserve is a Forest Reserve, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica in the emergency zone of the Arenal Volcano. It was created in 1972 covering an area of forest, and...
Area:
- 2.30671 km² (0.890625 mi² )
Cerro El Jardin Forest Reserve
Cerro El Jardin Forest Reserve is a Forest Reserve, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica about 80 miles north of San José, to the north of nearby Boca Tapada and near the border with Nicaragua. There...
Cureña Forest Reserve
Cureña Forest Reserve is a Forest Reserve, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica about 80 miles (130 km) north of San José, to the east of Boca Tapada. It was created in 1994 to poretect forests near...
Laguna Maquenque Wetlands
Laguna Maquenque Wetlands, also the Palustrino Laguna Maquenque Wetlands or the Laguna Maquenque Palustrine Wetlands is a nature reserve, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica near the small town of...
Area:
- 1.57827 km² (0.609375 mi² )
Laguna Las Camelias Wildlife Refuge
Laguna Las Camelias Wildlife Refuge, also the Camelias Lagoon National Wildlife Refuge, is a Wildlife refuge that is part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica, near Upala in the Alajuela Province, close to...
Area:
- 0.80937 km² (0.3125 mi² )
