Guanacaste
Guanacaste is a province in Costa Rica. This region is covered by dry tropical forest, which makes it popular among tourists looking to escape the humidity found in most of Central America.Photo: Andrés Berrocal Soto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Liberia
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Liberia is the capital city of the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park
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Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park is a park of 14,161 hectares covering a dry tropical…
Nicoya City
Nicoya is a district and head city of the Nicoya canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, located on the Nicoya Peninsula.Destinations
Tilarán
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Tilarán is a small town and a district in Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica.
Tenorio Volcano National Park
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The Tenorio Volcano National Park straddles the border between Guanacaste province and Alajuela province of Costa Rica, it is home to the beautiful Rio Celeste.
Sámara
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Sámara is a beach town in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province. Sunset at Playa Samara…
Playas del Coco
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Playas del Coco is a small beach town in Guanacaste province, on the North Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.
Brasilito
Playa Brasilito is a town in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.Nosara
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Nosara is a city in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. This town has access to several great beaches and retains "Blue Flag" status as an environmentally clean area.
Playa Carrillo
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Playa Carrillo is a postcard-perfect beach in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province, next to the small fishing village of Puerto Carrillo.
Playa Grande
Playa Grande is a town in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica, just north of Tamarindo.Guanacaste
- Type: province of Costa Rica with 354,000 residents
- Description: province of Costa Rica
- Location: Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude of centre
10.5° or 10° 30' northLongitude of centre
-85.25° or 85° 15' westPopulation
354,000Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)GeoNames ID
3623582Wikidata ID
Q690026Guanacaste Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: غواناكاسته
- Armenian: Գուանակաստե
- Asturian: Guanacaste
- Asturian: provincia de Guanacaste
- Avaric: CostarikaGuanacasteWinka
- Basque: Guanacaste
- Basque: Guanacaste probintzia
- Bengali: গুনাস্যাচ প্রদেশ
- Bulgarian: Гуанакасте
- Catalan: Guanacaste
- Catalan: Província de Guanacaste
- Catalan: província de Guanacaste
- Cebuano: Provincia de Guanacaste
- Chinese: Guanacaste Séng
- Chinese: 瓜納卡斯特省
- Chinese: 瓜纳卡斯特省
- Croatian: Guanacaste, provincija
- Croatian: Guanacaste
- Czech: Guanacaste
- Danish: Guanacaste
- Dutch: Guanacaste
- Dutch: Provincie Guanacaste
- English: Guanacaste Province
- Esperanto: Guanacaste
- Esperanto: Gvanakasto
- Esperanto: Provinco Guanacaste
- Finnish: Guanacasten maakunta
- French: Guanacaste
- Georgian: გუანაკასტეს პროვინცია
- German: CR-G
- German: Guanacaste
- German: Provinz Guanacaste
- Greek: Γκουανακάστε
- Greek: Επαρχία Γκουανακάστε
- Gujarati: ગુઆનાકાસ્ટ પ્રાંત
- Hebrew: גואנאקאסטה
- Hindi: गुनाकास्ट प्रांत
- Indonesian: Provinsi Guanacaste
- Italian: Guanacaste
- Italian: provincia di Guanacaste
- Japanese: グアナカステ州
- Kannada: ಗುವಾನಾಕಸ್ಟ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ
- Korean: 과나카스테주
- Kotava: CostarikaGuanacasteWinka
- Ladino: Guanacaste
- Latvian: Gvanakastes province
- Lithuanian: Guanakastės provincija
- Lithuanian: Gvanakastė
- Lithuanian: Gvanakastės provincija
- Malay: Guanacaste Province
- Marathi: गुनाकास्ट प्रांत
- Marathi: ग्वानाकास्ते प्रांत
- Min Nan Chinese: Guanacaste Séng
- Northern Frisian: Guanacaste
- Northern Sami: Guanacaste
- Norwegian: Guanacaste
- Norwegian Bokmål: Guanacaste
- Persian: استان گواناکاسته
- Polish: Guanacaste
- Portuguese: Guanacaste
- Portuguese: Província de Guanacaste
- Quechua: Guanacaste pruwinsya
- Quechua: Guanascate pruwinsya
- Romanian: Provincia Guanacaste
- Russian: Гуанакасте
- Serbian: Gvanakaste
- Serbian: Гванакасте
- Serbo-Croatian: Guanacaste
- Sinhala: ගයනකස්ටේ පළාත
- Spanish: Guanacaste
- Spanish: Provincia de Guanacaste
- Swedish: Guanacaste
- Tamil: குணஸாஸ்ட் மாகாணம்
- Telugu: గువానాకాస్ట్ ప్రావిన్స్
- Telugu: గువానాకాస్ట్ రాష్ట్రభాగం
- Thai: จังหวัดกัวนากัสเต
- Turkish: Guanacaste
- Turkish: Guanacaste Province
- Ukrainian: Гуанакасте
- Urdu: گواناکاستے صوبہ
- Vietnamese: Guanacaste
- Vietnamese: Tỉnh Guanacaste
- Welsh: Talaith Guanacaste
- Western Armenian: Կուանաքասթէ
- Western Panjabi: صوبہ گوناکاسٹ
- Wu Chinese: 瓜纳卡斯特省
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