AyA says that aquifers that provide water to these communities are below the historical level. Daniela Abarca / CRH. The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) stopped a project of the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA), with which it was intended to solve the lack of water that has the coastal area of ​​El Coco - Ocotal and Playa Hermosa, in Guanacaste. The comptroller den...

Access to Playa Naranjo in the Santa Rosa National Park is closed for indefinite time due to the damages caused to the road by tropical storm Nate. The access road to Playa Naranjo, a preferred spot for the practice of surf, is damaged in several points, in the area of Ojochal, where several fallen trees are blocking the road, and the Poza Salada River has large amounts of sand deposited in i...

A self proclaimed 5-star ocean front hotel on Costa Rica's northern Pacific was the scene of an unusual death in October, and the details are only getting stranger. Shortly after 42-year-old Shawn Edmonds was handcuffed by security guards at the Riu Guanacaste hotel after an apparent argument with hotel staff, the Kitchener, Ontario, Canada father fainted while sitting in a chair and was pronou...

The World Meeting of Blue Zones will take place in Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, from November 16 to the 18 and will have the presence of national and international guests that will be able to enjoy an agenda full of activities. Blue zones are geographic regions with an unusually high longevity. “A part of Costa Rica stands out worldwide as a "Blue Zone," which is characterized by the long...

These past few weeks Ostional in Guanacaste has been as it is several times a year the nesting site of thousands of sea turtles, an impressive event that attracts national and international tourists to this beach that receives four different species of sea turtles. In this occasion, however, the number of olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) arriving at the National Wildlife Refuge ...

An estimated $1 billion development located between Bagaces and Liberia in the northern Guanacaste province is underway. The mega project is expected to take 20 years to complete. The Ponderosa Country Club and Ponderosa City project will include 400 houses, as well as a kindergarten, private school, exercise areas, playgrounds, an equestrian area, and swimming pools, said project developers. ...

The fourth edition of the Mercedes-Benz fashion week Guanacaste will take place Thursday, December 28 at Hacienda Pinilla and is already organizing the castings to choose this year’s models. For this year the event will have several variations, some of which will be kept as a surprise, the event will also double the number of models and designers, bringing the number of models up to 50. “The...

A car accident registered at 4:18 a.m. this Sunday in the area of Las Juntas in Abangares, Guanacaste, claimed the lives of six people. According to preliminary information there were 7 passengers in a pick-up car with capacity for 5 people. The car crashed into a tree for reasons currently under investigation. Five of the victims died at the scene as a result of the crash, a sixth one died ...

Costa Rican and global business and government leaders will meet next week to discuss investment opportunities in Guanacaste, Costa Rica's northern province known for its idyllic beaches and stunning national parks, including the now active Rincon de la Viejo Volcano. Toronto, Canada-based Colliers International, a global commercial real estate services giant will be hosting the event. This is ...

Roca Bruja or Witch Rock, the giant rock in Playa Naranjo within the Santa Rosa National Park in Guanacaste also suffered the effects of Tropical Storm Nate. The famous rock now has a crack on its northern side, but in the south side some of the rock broke off and fell to the ocean, photos captured by surfers in the area show parts of broken rock. “We don’t know which day exactly it happened...

A Canadian tourist passed away today at the RIU Hotel in Guanacaste. The press office of the Organism of Judicial Investigation, confirmed the man was 42-year-old and of last name Shawn. Apparently the man was arguing with someone at the hotel and the argument escalated to the point that the hotel security had to intervene, the man was handcuffed and they sat him down on a chair at which point ...

The Costa Rican man who has been held in detention since his arrest in early February following the gruesome murder of five university students in January in the northern Costa Rican city of Liberia, capital of Guanacaste will attend a preliminary hearing Thursday, said the Public Security Ministry. The hearing, which was originally scheduled in Liberia for October 6, was postponed due to the n...

A 15-year-old foreign tourist dropped from a height of about 35 meters while he was on a canopy tour in Costa Rica's northern Pacific coast town of Sámara. The incident occurred in Santo Domingo de Sámara on Wednesday afternoon, reported the Nicoya Red Cross who attended the incident. Once the young man was stabilized, his parents rented a private helicopter to transfer him to a medical cent...

The Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) shared preliminary data (as of October 8) on the status of damages to crops after recent heavy rains. More than 124 thousand hectares of crops (over 300,000 acres) were affected from the intense rains  dropped by Tropical Storm Nate late last week. The area with the greatest impact is the Chorotega Region with almost 106 thousand he...

Animal welfare officials are stepping up efforts to receive and deliver donations of food for animals affected by Tropical Storm Nate which ravaged many rural areas of Costa Rica last week. Some 85,000 heads livestock and poultry birds are vulnerable and in need of food, as are some 15,000 pets such as cats and dogs. Horses, pigs, cattle and poultry, along with pets, are at the heart of a ca...

The National System of Conservation Areas has announced that several National Parks in the Guanacaste Area and Southern Zone will remain closed after damages caused by Tropical Storm Nate. Last Wednesday the Ministry of Environment and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) took the decision of closing National Parks in different areas of Costa Rica as a preventive measure, the par...

Several areas of Guanacaste have suffered the consequences of the heavy rains caused by the tropical depression that formed in the western Caribbean Sea and that is having an indirect effect over the country, keeping most of the territory under red alert. So far it has been the province of Guanacaste which has reported the most problems, with floods, mudslides and several overflowing rivers. ...

Photo Credit: Mundo Guanacaste Facebook At least 100 neighbors of the community of Playas del Coco in Guanacaste are currently being affected by heavy floods due to the overflow of rivers. Apparently some people are trapped in their homes, businesses and even some in their cars since the streets are now under at least one meter of water. The heavy rain that has been falling in the area si...

Five men in the northern region of Cañas, Guanacaste had their Sunday afternoon deer hunting spree put to a quick end by police who were tipped off on the subjects entering the forest with hunting dogs and rifles, said the Ministry of Public Security. Police were aided by officials of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC, in Spanish), who have been on alert in recent weeks for deer ...

Tamarindo, Guancaste is one of Costa Rica’s most visited beach towns, an area that attracts surfers year round and national and foreign tourists that enjoy the many restaurants and attractions the area offers and the beauty of the Tamarindo beach and the many beautiful beaches close by. The Hilltop Adventure Park is just another reason to visit Tamarindo, not that you needed any more, but it o...

The construction of the new Flamingo Marina in Guanacaste, Costa Rica has been talked about for years, over a decade actually, ever since the government shut down the prior marina in 2004 by order of the Administrative Environmental Court after a lot of controversy since it didn’t have the proper environmental impact study and there were reports of contamination. Grupo de Desarrollo Marina Flam...

Police assault data for Costa Rica's counties continue to rank San José as being the most violent, and Escazú fell three places in the judiciary police's ranking of the country's regions by number of assaults, according to data released this week by the OIJ, the country's investigation bureau. Hojancha and Nandayure, Guanacaste registered no assaults this year so far, and have historically had ...

In case you missed it, right here in Costa Rica is one of the world's five "blue zones" - geographic regions with an unusually high longevity. The Nicoya Peninsula communities of Hojancha, Nandayure, Santa Cruz, Carrillo and Nicoya in Guanacaste province make up the area in Latin America with the highest longevity. World experts are seeking to learn more about the secrets behind the Nicoyan ...

Last Thursday, Playa Hermosa in Guanacaste was once again the scene of a double murder, two Costa Rican men, identified as Brayan Duarte and Gary Strattman Mata were shot to death, the first outside a residential area and the other outside of a local bar “Bar Bahía Culebra” which was closed down months ago by the Municipality of Guanacaste. According to the police both men apparently were membe...

Over 2,000 homes and businesses in Guanacaste, Costa Rica will benefit from a new clean energy source: that created by the region's abundant sun, said a report in Central America's Summa business magazine. The energy distribution company Coopeguanacaste, R.L. has developed the Juanilama Solar Park, the largest in the country with an installed capacity of 5 Megawatts (MW) and generating 9 Gigawa...

Grupo Britt Costa Rica is holding a job fair in Guanacaste this week from September 11 - 14 where the company aims to hire at least 50 people for its stores, and new food and beverage outlets. For its Britt cafés, the company is hiring food and beverage supervisors, baristas, kitchen assistants, wait staff, tellers, and cleaning assistants. All positions except cleaning positions require a h...

The Costa Rica Four Seasons Resort in Papagayo closed operations temporarily since August to undergo full remodeling. The hotel is scheduled to open doors again by the end of November of beginning of December after a large investment that included the makeover of almost all its areas. Four Seasons Papagayo opened doors in 2004 and is considered the best five star resort in Central and South ...

When Alejo Leiva Lachner, a university student from San José, went to Guanacaste, Costa Rica for Spring break at the beach with friends, nobody ever imagined he'd never return. Last March at Guanacaste's Playas del Coco, what appeared to be a small disagreement between the students and a pirate taxi driver turned into a mob killing that stunned the entire country. Five men are facing trial o...

For the fifth year, the RIU Hotel chain reaffirms its fight against sexual exploitation of children in the tourism industry.The Hotel Riu Palace Costa Rica (All Inclusive 24h), is located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica on the edge of the beach of Matapalo. This hotel has four swimming pools (one with a wet bar), jacuzzi, gym, sauna and a wellness center "Renova Spa" with different treatments and massag...

When U.S. citizens Luda and Rome Gimelfarb's son David disappeared after heading on a hike in northern Costa Rica, they never thought they would still be searching for him eight years later. The couple continues to hold out hope they will locate their son whom they say they feel is still alive. On August 11, 2009 David Gimelfarb set out for a hike in Rincón de la Vieja National Park, never t...

Hotel El Mangroove in Panama Beach, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, will celebrate Costa Rica’s independence day with the fourth edition of the event A 10 Manos (With 10 Hands), a unique event in the country that celebrates high cuisine with a five course meal created by the hands of 5 renown international chefs. This year’s theme will be the Mesoamerican Contemporary Cuisine, which seeks to praise the...

A mega rail and road cargo transportation project that would completely bisect Costa Rica east-west through its northern region seems to have the makings of a future conservationist versus businessman standoff. The details of the project's location have been kept nebulous, while those in the shipping, trade and transport sectors tout the economic benefits of a future rapid interoceanic system t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQPZL_SKlk The 61-year-old Oscar winning U.S. film actor and director, Mel Gibson, has re-listed his oceanside mansion on Costa Rica's northern Nicoya Peninsula for the same price he was asking in 2014: US$29.75 million. He also had the mansion on the market in 2012 and 2013. Gibson nabbed the 400-some acres of coastal jungle when searching for sites to fi...

This fall, a new kind of yoga retreat will be offered at Vida Asana Eco-Lodge Retreat in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. Body, Mind, and Spirit Yoga retreat offers a journey of recovery from compulsive overeating and food addiction. This fall, Fort Lauderdale, FL yoga teacher Helene Kopel is offering a retreat connecting the body, mind, and spirit. But, this isn’t your ordinary yoga and meditation r...

Almost four months ago Costa Rica received the announcement of the construction in Costa Rica of the theme park Discovery Costa Rica. The construction is supposed to begin early 2018 and in theory environmental requirements and permits are already in order; yet, it seems that the project has hit its first bump in the road as the project is still in a process of “discussion and clarification of ...

In February, the community of Ostional, Costa Rica on the Nicoya Peninsula in the northern Guanacaste province carried out a tsunami evacuation drill. This was the first time such a drill has been carried out in Costa Rica. Ostional is home to the Ostional Wildlife Refuge, which the World Wildlife Fund considers “one of the two most important nesting areas in the world for Olive Ridley turtl...

Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, will be in Hojancha, Guanacaste on July 25 to celebrate the creation of the new district of Matambu. The district encompasses the Matambú Indigenous Reserve, and its designation as Hojancha county's 5th district is thanks to the initiative of Liberation Party Legislator Juan Rafael Marín Quirós. His petition presented to the Legislative Asse...

An in-depth health study that looked at Costa Rican's over-100 population - in particular the notable cluster of centenarians on Guanacaste's Nicoya Peninsula - has found some remarkable results. Specialists from the Costa Rican Social Security Agency's (CCSS) National Geriatrics and Gerontology Hospital visited the elderly in their homes and for the first time gathered data to gauge their phys...

Miami based international real estate developer Gencom announced a more than USD 100 million investment toward a major transformation of Peninsula Papagayo, a 1,400-acre premier residential and resort destination in the Guanacaste province in northwestern Costa Rica. Beginning in December 2017 with the debut of the re-imagined Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica. Earlier this year Four Seasons resort h...

Photo: Archive Conchal Reserve and The Westin Golf Resort and Spa Playa Conchal donated new facilities for the local EBAIS (Basic Equipment for Comprehensive Health Care), the local public health care center that provides attention to neighbors of the communities of Brasilito, La Garita, Huacas, Flamingo and Potrero in Guanacaste. The inauguration of the new location in Brasilito, Cabo Velas...