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La Fortuna district location in Costa Rica. ... Time zone: UTC−06:00: Postal code ... 50402. La Fortuna is a district of the Bagaces canton, in the Guanacaste ...
"La Fortuna" is Spanish for "The Fortune", and aptly named due its ample supply of tourist attractions and extremely fertile lands. Although there is a common myth that the town got its name due to its sparing from the Arenal Volcano's eruptions, the town actually got its name before the latest eruption cycle and was named for the fertile lands ("The Fortune") where it is located.
The two lists of the largest cities in Central America given below are based on two different definitions of a city, the urban agglomeration, and the city proper. In both lists Central America is defined as consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. All estimates and projections given have a ...
Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala) is known colloquially by Guatemalans as La Capital or Guate. Its formal name is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción [ 8 ] (New Guatemala of the Assumption). The latter name is derived from the fact that it was a new Guatemala after the old one ( La Antigua ) was ruined by an earthquake.
Vorlage:Positionskarte Costa Rica Alajuela; La Fortuna (Costa Rica) Quesada (Costa Rica) Usage on eo.wikipedia.org Ŝablono:Situo sur mapo Kostariko Alajuela; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Alajuela (distrito) Zaragoza (Costa Rica) El Carmen (Alajuela) Orotina (Costa Rica) San Jerónimo de Naranjo; Quesada (Costa Rica) San Mateo (Costa Rica) San ...
The volcano is located at the center of Arenal Volcano National Park in the northern zone of the country, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of the La Fortuna district in San Carlos (canton), Costa Rica. [5] Arenal Volcano area is an important watershed for the Arenal Lake Reservoir. The reservoir's water is used for hydroelectric power. It is ...
La Fortuna Waterfall (Spanish for "the fortune") is in central Costa Rica, in the Alajuela Province.In Spanish, it is known as Catarata Fortuna.The waterfall drops about 70−75 meters and is at the base of the dormant Chato volcano, about 5.5 km outside of the town of La Fortuna, near the Arenal Volcano.
Arenal Volcano National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal) is a Costa Rican national park in the central part of the country, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area. The park encompasses the Arenal Volcano , the most active in the country, which was believed to be dormant until a major eruption in 1968.