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UTC−06:00. Postal code. 61101. Jacó (Spanish pronunciation: [xa'ko]) is a district of the Garabito canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. [1][2] Jacó has a black sand beach that is 4 km (2.5 mi) long and is popular among surfers. [3]
Carara National Park area. Carara National Park is a national park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It was established on 27 April 1978 as a biological reserve, but its growing popularity after 1990 forced the government to upgrade its category to national park in November 1998.
Playa Herradura, Costa Rica. Coordinates: 9.659748°N 84.634638°W. 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.
Garabito has an area of 316.31 km 2[4] and a mean elevation of 22 metres. [2] The canton lies along the north-central Pacific coast between Punta Loros near the town of Tivives and the mouth of the Tusubres River. The eastern boundary runs through the Fila Negra, a coastal mountain range. It is one of the most visited cantones of the area, due ...
Political and human geography. Costa Rica shares a 313-kilometre (194-mile) border with Nicaragua to the north, and a 348-km border with Panama to the south. Costa Rica claims an exclusive economic zone of 574,725 km 2 (221,903 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi).
Location in Costa Rica. 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 ...
Arenal in November 2006. Arenal Volcano (Spanish: Volcán Arenal) is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km (56 mi) northwest of San José, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortuna. The Arenal volcano measures at least 1,633 metres (5,358 ft) high. [2]
Tourism in Costa Rica has been one of the fastest growing economic sectors of the country [2] and by 1995 became the largest foreign exchange earner. [3][4] Since 1999, tourism has earned more foreign exchange than bananas, pineapples and coffee exports combined. [5] The tourism boom began in 1987, [3] with the number of visitors up from ...