Jacó
Jacó is one of the two largest tourist towns on the Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. It is a surfing town with a 4-km long black sand beach and several local surf shops where you can get a board or sign up for lessons.Photo: Costaricapro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Milei.vencel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jacó
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: district in Garabito canton, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Garabito, Puntarenas Province, Central Pacific, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
9.6156° or 9° 36' 56" northLongitude
-84.6281° or 84° 37' 41" westPopulation
20,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
CR JACOpen Location Code
66XQJ98C+7QOpenStreetMap ID
node 7310986869OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3623369Wikidata ID
Q1463601Jacó Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Asturian: Jacó
- Asturian: distritu de Jacó
- Avaric: Jacó
- Catalan: Jacó, Costa Rica
- Cebuano: Jacó
- Chinese: 哈科區
- Dutch: Jacó, Costa Rica
- English: Jacó, Costa Rica
- English: Jacó de Garabito
- French: Jacó
- German: Jacó
- Hungarian: Jacó
- Italian: Jacó
- Japanese: ハコ
- Kotava: Jacó (Costa Rica)
- Lithuanian: Chako
- Norwegian: Jacó
- Norwegian Bokmål: Jacó
- Polish: Jacó
- Romanian: Jacó
- Spanish: Jaco
- Spanish: Jacó
- Spanish: Jacó de Garabito
- Swedish: Jacó
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In the Area
- Jacó SolNeighbourhood
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- CamboyaNeighbourhood
- CopeyNeighbourhood
- Los CholosNeighbourhood
- Santa LucíaNeighbourhood
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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 Jacó. Photo: Milei.vencel, CC BY-SA 3.0.