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La Fortuna is a district of the Bagaces canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. History La Fortuna was created on 14 August 1968 by Decreto 29 ...
History. During the colonial period the entire Nicoya Peninsula was administratively part of the Partido de Nicoya (nowadays Guanacaste), it was at the beginning of the 20th century that President Alfredo González Flores signed a decree that transferred the administration of Lepanto along with Paquera and Cóbano (towns in the extreme south of the Nicoya peninsula) to the province of Puntarenas.
Tronadora is a district of the Tilarán canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] It is located on the west shore of Lake Arenal. It is connected by road to Tejona and Tilarán along Route 142. [3] The weather is changeable due to the proximity of the confluence of the Pacific coast weather pattern and the inland lake weather ...
Approximately 72% of its economically active population worked in livestock, agriculture and fisheries. Its further development was due to the opening of the Interamericana Street. The trade of Costa Rica with the rest of Central America has led the increase in the passage of vehicles to be bound by crossing La Cruz, encouraging them to people ...
Bagaces has an area of 1,273.49 km² [8] and a mean elevation of 396 metres. [2]The Salto River on the west and Tenorio River on the east delineate this canton, with the Tempisque River as the southern border and the northern border high in the Cordillera de Guanacaste.
Playa Negra Costa Rica.jpg. Playa Negra is a beach in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. It is south of Tamarindo, San José de Pinilla, Avellanas and north of Marbella, Lagarto, Venado, and Junquillal. Los Pargos, meaning "the snapper", is the name of the town where Playa Negra is located.
For the 2011 census, Liberia had a population of 62,987 inhabitants. [7] Besides hosting the provincial capital, Liberia Canton is the most populous of Guanacaste's nine cantons. Transportation
History Proto-historical Nicoya. When conquistador Gil Gonzalez Dávila entered Nicoya in 1523, it was the largest cacicazgo (chiefdom) on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. . Though it is often surmised that the city and peninsula of Nicoya derive their name from a cacique Nicoa (or Nicoya) who welcomed Dávila and his men, actually Nicoya took its name from the Nahuatl appellation Necoc Īāuh ...