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2. Jacó, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   83/km 2 (210/sq mi) Time zone. 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]

3. Prostitution in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Prostitution in Costa Rica is legal. Costa Rica 's legal system is based on Roman law rather than common law, and so for prostitution to be illegal it would have to be explicitly stated as such in a penal code, and it is not. Nevertheless, many of the activities surrounding it are illegal, [1] as the law forbids promoting or facilitating the ...

4. Cantons of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Cantons are the only administrative division in Costa Rica that possess local government in the form of municipalities. Each municipality has its own mayor and several representatives, all of them chosen via municipal elections every four years. The original 14 cantons were established in 1848, and the number has risen gradually by the division ...

5. Carara National Park - Wikipedia

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   Location in Costa Rica. 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.

6. Playa Herradura, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Garabito (canton) - Wikipedia

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   History. Garabito was created on 25 September 1980 by decree 6512. Geography. Garabito has an area of 316.31 km 2 and a mean elevation of 22 metres.. The canton lies along the north-central Pacific coast between Punta Loros near the town of Tivives and the mouth of the Tusubres River.