Hotel Camino a Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Hotel Camino a Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Costa Rica Location

Costa Rica is in Central America, between Nicaragua and Panama. It’s a little more than 50,000 square kilometers in size, just a little larger than Switzerland. 10% of its four million inhabitants live in the capital, San José.

Costa Rica is 500 kilometers long and 150 kilometers wide. The coastline which contains the three peninsulas; Osa, Nicoya, and Papagayo, has a length of 1800 kilometers.

80% of the population is of Spanish origin. The majority of the black and mulatto population (7% of the total) live in Puerto Limón or it’s surroundings on the Caribbean.