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Manuel Antonio National Park (Spanish: 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 157 km (98 mi) from the national capital of San José. It was established in 1972, when the local community sought ...
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Manuel María de Jesús Gutiérrez Flores (3 September 1829 – 25 December 1887) [1] was a Costa Rican musician, composer, and military man. [2] He was the author of the music of the National anthem of Costa Rica, whose first performance took place on 11 June 1852, when President Juan Rafael Mora Porras received the delegations from the United States and Great Britain.
The canton lies along the central Pacific coast between the mouths of the Damas and Barú rivers. The northeastern border runs through high, remote coastal mountain ranges. The county is most famous for being the home of the Manuel Antonio National Park, the most visited national park in Costa Rica.
Quepos is the gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park. The city is very tourism-oriented, having many bars and restaurants and a vivacious night-life. Quepos is well known thanks to being the gateway to a popular National Park and beaches in Costa Rica.
Turrialba is the second highest volcano in Costa Rica with an elevation of 3,340 m (10,960 ft). The volcano is periodically active. [34] Total: 816,521 ha (2,017,670 acres) (including ocean) The land area of national parks make up 13 percent of the area of Costa Rica and about one-half of the total protected land area in Costa Rica.
José María Alfaro Zamora, president of Costa Rica, 1842–44, 1846-47 (1943, 1961) Alejandro Alvarado Garcia, president of the Costa Rica Court of Justice (1992) Felipe J. Alvarado, Founder of Rotary Club Costa Rica (1977) es:Pablo de Alvarado y Bonilla, doctor, Costa Rican politician and Independence leader (1971) Andrey Amador, cyclist (2011)
Juan Vázquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, the out of wedlock son of a prominent nobleman, Gonzalo Vásquez de Coronado y Luján (c. 1500 – Valladolid, 1540), sixth Lord of Coquilla and la Torre de Juan Vásquez, perpetual Alguacil-Mayor of the Royal Audiencia (i.e., appellate court) of Valladolid, [a] by an extramatrimonial relationship with Catalina de Anaya, from whom there ...