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GUANACASTE
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The Guanacaste province is located on the North Pacific of Costa Rica. It is one of the regions with the lowest rainfall in the country and almost all the territory is covered by a dry tropical forest. Guanacaste is the folkloric province of the country and the rural landscape has many attractive villages and the people are kind and friendly. The coast has many magnificent beaches and bays with all kinds of hotels. Though little tangible remains of the dance, music and folklore for which the region is famous, there is undeniably something special, affecting even, about the place. Granted that much of the landscape has come about essentiallly through the slaughter of tropical dry forest, it is still some of the prettiest you will see in the country, especially in the wet season, when wide open spaces, stretching from the ocean across savannah grasses to the brooding humps of volcanos, are washed in a beautifully muted range of earth tones, blues, yellows and mauves.
The capital is Liberia, which has an international airport. You can use one of
the domestic airlines to fly from San Jose to Liberia and organize a transfer
from there to the beach resorts or fly directly to some of the beach destinations
like indicated in our domestic flights section.
Most of this region is covered by a dry tropical forest and its transitions. This
is the region where it rains the least in Costa Rica and where the dry season
lasts the longest. The rainy season starts at the end of May and lasts until the
end of November. The rainiest months are September, October and the first half
of November. From June to August you can expect some thunderstorms, mainly in
the afternoon. Temperatures are always above 90° F and could get to 100°
- 110° F by midday from February to April.
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