Golfito
Golfito is a port town in South Pacific Costa Rica. It's across from the Osa Peninsula on the Golfo Dulce. Olive snouted tree frog Golfito has long been known to surfers as the gateway to Pavones, just to the south, and to sport fishermen as the year round sport fishing Mecca.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Federico Mata, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Golfito Airport
Aerodrome
Golfito Airport is an airport serving Golfito, a port town on the northwest end of Golfito Bay, an inlet off the Gulf of Dulce in the Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica.
Golfito
- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: district in Golfito canton, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica
- Postal code: 60701
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Golfito, Puntarenas Province, South Pacific Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
8.6391° or 8° 38' 21" northLongitude
-83.1685° or 83° 10' 7" westPopulation
10,000Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)IATA airport code
GLFUnited Nations Location Code
CR GLFOpen Location Code
66WRJRQJ+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2600824342OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3623656Wikidata ID
Q949409Golfito Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Asturian: Golfito
- Asturian: distritu de Golfito
- Avaric: Golfito
- Catalan: Golfito
- Cebuano: Golfito
- Chinese: 戈爾菲托區
- Dutch: Golfito
- French: Golfito
- German: Golfito
- Italian: Golfito
- Japanese: ゴルフィート
- Kotava: Golfito
- Lithuanian: Golfitas
- Nauru: Golfito
- Norwegian: Golfito
- Norwegian Bokmål: Golfito
- Polish: Golfito
- Romanian: Golfito
- Spanish: Golfito
- Spanish: Golfito de Golfito
- Swedish: Golfito
- Ukrainian: Гольфіто
- Golfita
- Puerto Golfito
Other Places Named Golfito
Localities in the Area
- Zona GrisNeighbourhood
- ParroquialNeighbourhood
- BellavistaNeighbourhood
- MinervaNeighbourhood
- Las AlamedasNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Golfito. Photo: Federico Mata, CC BY 3.0.