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Punta del Este (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpunta ðel ˈeste]) is a seaside city and peninsula on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay.Starting as a small town, Punta del Este grew to become a resort for the Latin and North American jet set and tourists.
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La Mano (The Hand) is a sculpture in Punta del Este by Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal. [3] It depicts five human fingers partially emerging from sand and is located on Parada 1 at Brava Beach [2] in Punta del Este, a popular tourist town in Uruguay.
Punta del Este is virtually connected to the city of Maldonado and eastward spread widely, encompassing La Barra and José Ignacio. It has 122 hotels, 80 restaurants, an international airport and a yacht port that can accommodate 500 boats. About 8 kilometers southeast of Punta del Este is the Lobos Island full of South American fur seals.
Costa Rica ratified the convention on 23 August 1977. [3] It has four World Heritage Sites and one site on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Costa Rica listed was the Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park, in 1983. In 1990, the site was expanded to include the sites across the border in Panama.
Since the late 1980s, Costa Rica became a popular nature travel destination, and its main competitive advantage is its well-established system of national parks and protected areas, [11] covering around 23.4% of the country's land area, [12] the largest in the world as a percentage of the country's territory, [13] [14] and home to a rich ...
The name Puntarenas comes from a portmanteau of punta and arenas, which means "point" and "sands", respectively.In English this would translate roughly to "Sand Point". The name is first referenced by the arrival in February 1720 of the pirate John Clipperton to the area, which recorded in his journals to have arrived to a "Punta de Arena", referring to the needle-like area on which the city ...
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