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At the same time, travelers from outside of Costa Rica use the name "Coco Beach", when mentioning this locale. Playas del Coco is located approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the town of Liberia, Costa Rica, the largest town in the province of Guanacaste. The town experienced rapid growth due to the increasing number of international ...
Playa Grande (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplaʝa ˈɣɾande], lit. "Big Beach"), also known as Salinas , is a beach community on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica just north of Tamarindo. [ 1 ] It is located inside the canton of Santa Cruz in Guanacaste Province .
Playa Herradura (Herradura Beach) is a coastal town in the Central Pacific Region of Costa Rica. It is located about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi), north of Jacó in the province of Puntarenas. The name Herradura refers to the horseshoe shape of the bay. The town has developed into an important tourist destination in Costa Rica.
Playa Flamingo (Flamingo Beach) is one of Costa Rica's most popular beaches with fine white sand. [1] It has pristine clear blue waters, lagoons , vegetation and abundance of activities. The Playa Flamingo area offers a wide variety of secluded beaches and lagoons due to the mountain formations reaching into the sea.
Playa Coyote is divided by a mangrove river, [2] Rio Jabillo, into two parts. The lower part is called Punta Coyote and is made up of a shallow horseshoe-shaped sandy beach leading to the cliffy land-tongue. The upper part, also called Playa Costa de Oro, represents a long palm-covered beachfront that ends at Playa San Miguel. [3]
Jacó Beach in 2007. Jacó has an area of 141.11 km² [4] and an elevation of 7 metres. [1]Jacó lies between several mountains, and is neighbored by the beaches of Herradura Bay to the North, and Playa Hermosa to the South (not to be confused with another beach by the same name, but located in Guanacaste).
It is located 9.5 kilometers south of Golfito. [3] Zancudo is located on a long and narrow peninsula, sometime only 100 yards wide, at the mouth of the Rio Colorado. [3] On one side of the peninsula is Zancudo's beach, protected from the full force of Pacific waves, while the other is home to a mangrove swamp. [3]
Costa Rica's distance from the capital of the captaincy in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under mercantilist Spanish law from trade with its southern neighbor Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (i.e. Colombia), and lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely-inhabited region ...