Puntarenas, Costa Rica, a small Pacific-coast city about 50 mi/80 km west of San Jose, is making a comeback as a port and resort town. The toll highway between San Jose and Puntarenas cuts the ...

Puntarenas is Costa Rica's largest province, which spans Manuel Antonio National Park along the Pacific Coast in the north and the southern tip that touches Panama. The region is replete with ...

Located in the heart of Puntarenas you will find El Bulevar Gastronómicobeside Casa De La Cultura, Elsie Canessa de Odio on Avenida Centenario, Calle Francisco de Paula Amador. With the historic ...

One of them, Grace “Chinita” Gomez, has been selling vigorones in Puntarenas for nearly 30 years. Alexander Villegas / The Tico Times. Aside from the typical list of ingredients, Grace says the key is ...

On April 26, 2025, in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, @ayyy.papa shared a video of an unexpected encounter in Corcovado National Park. In the video, the author and a friend are bathing in the river when a ...

PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica — All was quiet that night on the Promenade of the Tourists, the famed boulevard overlooking this coastal city’s white-sand beach and softly lapping waves.

Puntarenas Canton Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Puntarenas Canton area.

The best things to do in Costa Rica revolve around its natural wonders, from hiking near the famous Arenal Volcano to soaking in Tabacón Hot Springs.

Located in beautiful Costa Rica, Puntarenas, or "Sandy Point", is a long narrow sand spit that is an extension of the Nicoya Peninsula and juts out into the Gulf of Nicoya, only two blocks wide at ...