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Provincia de Puntarenas

Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Puntarenas Province

Puntarenas (Spanish: [puntaˈɾenas]) is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the western part of the country, covering most of Costa Rica's Pacific Ocean coast, and it is the largest province in Costa Rica. Clockwise from the northwest it borders on the provinces Guanacaste, Alajuela, San José and Limón, and the neighbouring country of Panama. Overview The capital is Puntarenas. The province covers an area of , and has a population of 410,929. It is subdivided into 11 cantons. For administr…

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Manuel Antonio National Park
Manuel Antonio National …
Puerto Quepos
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 from the national capital of San José. Established in 1972, the local community sought conservation to prohibit development of the natural environment for tourist attraction. They also protested the beach restrictions on locals by foreign owners. With a land area enum…
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Corcovado National Park
Corcovado National Park
Sirena
Corcovado National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Corcovado) is a National Park on the Osa Peninsula, in Osa Canton, southwestern Costa Rica (9° North, 83° West), which is part of the Osa Conservation Area. It was established on 24 October 1975 and encompasses an area of . It is the largest park in Costa Rica and extends over about a third of the Osa Peninsula. It is widely considered the crown jewel in the extensive system of national parks and biological reserves spread across the country. ''…
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Gulf of Nicoya
Gulf of Nicoya
Los Órganos
The Gulf of Nicoya (Spanish: Golfo de Nicoya) is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. It separates the Nicoya Peninsula from the mainland of Costa Rica, and encompasses a marine and coastal landscape of wetlands, rocky islands and cliffs. The first Spanish landing in Nicaragua took place here in 1519. Islands • Chira Island • Venado Island • Isla Caballo • Isla Bejuco • Isla San Lucas • Isla Gitana • Tortuga Island, Costa Rica External links • http://www.nicoyapeninsula.com/gulf/
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The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, the Reserve consists of over of cloud forest. It draws roughly 70,000 visitors a year. The Reserve consists of 6 ecological zones, 90% of which are virgin forest. A high biodiversity, consisting of over 2,500 plant species (including …
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Vista sobre bahía Iglesias
Vista sobre bahía Iglesi…
Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. It constitutes the 11th of the 13 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the Province of Puntarenas. With an area of approximately , the island is more or less rectangular in shape. It is the southernmost point of geopolitical North America if non-continental islands are included. The entirety of Cocos Island has been designated a Costa Rican Nation…
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San Lucas Island National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Isla San Lucas) is an island located off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica in the Gulf of Nicoya. It is part of the Puntarenas district of Puntarenas Canton of the province of Puntarenas. Formerly housing a brutal prison, now abandoned, the island was designated as a National Park in August 2020 by decree 9892 and managed under the Central Pacific Conservation Area. Toponymy Named for Luke the Evangelist. Geography San Lucas Island located i…
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Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
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. Carara lies about west of the Costa Rican capital of San José and about miles north of the beach town of Jacó. The park protects the river basin of the River Tárcoles, near Orotina and inclu…
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Acercamiento Caracol
Acercamiento Caracol
Estadio Municipal de Puntarenas Miguel Ángel "Lito" Pérez Treacy is a multi-use stadium in Puntarenas Centro, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. It is nicknamed “La Olla Mágica” ("The Magic Pot") due to the warm weather that is common in the stadium. Formerly known as Estadio Municipal de Puntarenas. In 1974, then mayor Lorgio Álvarez proposed to rename the stadium after Puntarenas native football star "Lito" Perez. The motion was approved by the municipal council and the stadium took its new name. It is …
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Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas, Golfito, Costa Rica
Parque Nacional Piedras …
Field Station La Gamba, in the “Rainforest of the Austrians” in Costa Rica, is an Austrian research, teaching and continuing-education institution, whose mission is to contribute to research on tropical rainforests, to generate interest in conservation and in rainforest research, and to give interested persons an opportunity to deepen their appreciation of nature within the rainforest. Field Station La Gamba is situated in southern Costa Rica, on the edge of the parque nacional Piedras Blancas (…
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Palmar Sur, Costa Rica
Palmar Sur, Costa Rica
Palmar Sur Airport is an airport serving the adjacent towns of Palmar Norte and Palmar Sur in Osa Canton, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Palmar Norte and Palmar Sur are divided by the Térraba River at its exit from the coastal mountain range, inland from the Pacific Ocean. The airport is on the southern bank, and north approach and departure cross the river. There is a mountain immediately north of Palmar Norte, and mountainous terrain northwest through northeast of the airport. The airport …
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Zentrygon chiriquensis2_
Palo Verde National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Palo Verde), is a national park of Costa Rica, part of the Arenal Tempisque Conservation Area, that contains much of the area of the valley of the Tempisque River and covers an area of 45,492 acres in Guanacaste Province, 30 km west of Canas. The surrounding region is mostly tropical dry forests, and the park concentrates on conserving vital floodplain, marshes, limestone ridges, and seasonal pools from the encroachment of civilization which was…
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Cerro Biolley
Cerro Biolley
The El Diquís Hydroelectric Project (known as the PHED for its Spanish acronym) is a cancelled hydroelectric dam project, designed by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute). The dam was to be located on the Térraba River between Buenos Aires, Osa, and Pérez Zeledón in Puntarenas Province in southwestern Costa Rica. Planned as the largest hydroelectric dam in Central America, the 631 MW El Diquís Hydroelectric Project would have generated renewab…
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Zapandí Riverine Wetlands (Spanish: Humedal Riberino Zapandí), is a nature reserve in Guanacaste Province, northwestern Costa Rica, created by decree 22732-MIRENEM in 1993. The nature reserve is within the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Tempisque Conservation Area and Arenal Tempisque Conservation Area. Nature Zapandí Riverine Wetlands protects low wetlands around the Quebrada Grande and the Ahogados River, in the Tempisque River watershed. External links • Costa Rica National Parks: '''Riberin…
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31 Diciembre: mientras los colegas están en la San Silvestre madrileña... Playa Hermosa
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Gulf of Nicoya
Gulf of Nicoya
Los Órganos
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Gulf of Nicoya
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Gulf of Nicoya
Los Órganos
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Gulf of Nicoya
Gulf of Nicoya
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Gulf of Nicoya
Gulf of Nicoya
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Cerro Biolley
Cerro Biolley
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Corcovado National Park
Corcovado National Park
Sirena
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Bosque nuboso
Bosque nuboso
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