La Fortuna
La Fortuna de San Carlos is a small town in the north of Costa Rica. It is known mainly for the nearby Arenal Volcano, a destination for scientists and tourists. See volcanoes for general information.Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Fortuna
- Type: Village with 17,000 residents
- Description: district in San Carlos canton, Alajuela province, Costa Rica
- Postal code: 21007
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: La Fortuna, San Carlos, Alajuela Province, North Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.4717° or 10° 28' 18" northLongitude
-84.6444° or 84° 38' 40" westPopulation
17,000Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)IATA airport code
FONUnited Nations Location Code
CR LAFOpen Location Code
762QF9C4+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 184097765OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3623716Wikidata ID
Q3209157La Fortuna Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Asturian: La Fortuna
- Asturian: distritu de La Fortuna
- Cebuano: La Fortuna
- Chinese: 拉福爾圖納區
- Dutch: La Fortuna
- English: La Fortuna, San Carlos
- English: La Fortuna de San Carlos
- Finnish: La Fortuna
- French: La Fortuna
- German: La Fortuna
- Italian: La Fortuna
- Japanese: ラ・フォルトゥナ
- Japanese: ラ・フォーチュナ
- Spanish: La Fortuna
- Spanish: La Fortuna de San Carlos
- Swedish: La Fortuna, Costa Rica
- Swedish: La Fortuna
- El Burío
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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 La Fortuna. Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.