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  2. Las Catalinas, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Las Catalinas is a private resort founded in 2006 along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in the Guanacaste Province of northwest Costa Rica. [1] The objective was to create a compact, car-free, and fully walkable resort, based on the principles of New Urbanism. [2]

  3. Huetar people - Wikipedia

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    The name "huetares", as well as that of "chorotegas", is attributed to the Spanish conqueror Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, derived from the name of two chieftains: King Huetara, chief of Pacaca kingdom (now Tabarcia, east of Santiago de Puriscal) and Chorotega, chief of the area that occupied the Central Atlantic (territory that ...

  4. Jarabacoa - Wikipedia

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    Four years later, Jarabacoa was elevated to the category of Common by decree of President Pedro Santana, on September 27, 1858, and by Royal Order of the Spanish Ministry of War dated June 26, 1862, the Jarabacoa Military Command was created. Nowadays Jarabacoa is known to attract many prominent families, especially retirees.

  5. Liberia, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    On 23 July 1831, the settlement of Guanacaste was given the title of Villa de Guanacaste. Just a few years later on 3 September 1836 it was given the name Ciudad de Guanacaste (City of Guanacaste). In 1838 after the Federal Republic of Central America began to dissolve, Costa Rica formally withdrew and proclaimed itself a sovereign state.

  6. Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica) - Wikipedia

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    Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste is a national park in northern Costa Rica.The park is part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site, and stretches from the slopes of the Orosí and Cacao volcanoes west to the Interamerican Highway where it is adjacent to the Santa Rosa National Park. [1]

  7. Guanacaste Province - Wikipedia

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    The place was baptized after the guanacaste trees that grow in the neighborhood. After a plebiscite in 1824-25, the territory of Guanacaste was annexed to Costa Rica. In 1836 it was invaded by Nicaraguan forces and Costa Rican exiles but they were repelled.After this,the town of Guanacaste was declared the capital of the Guanacaste province. [8]

  8. Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site

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    The Area de Conservación Guanacaste is a network of protected areas and a World Heritage Site in Guanacaste Province, in northwestern Costa Rica.The World Heritage Site contains an unbroken tract of tropical dry forest and important habitat for several vulnerable species, including the Central American tapir, mangrove hummingbird, and the great green macaw. [1]

  9. Santa Cruz (canton), Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Santa Cruz has an area of 1,312.27 km² [6] and a mean elevation of 39 metres. [2] The heart-shaped canton is on the northern Pacific coast between Potrero Bay to the north and the mouth of the Montaña River to the south. It includes Velas Cape, the furthermost western point on the Nicoya Peninsula.

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