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Since immemorial times it is known that Costa Rica takes such name not because of abound of gold, or hidden mineral wealth, but because of the beauty of its coasts, that are due to consider the greatest treasure of the country.
This automobile truth, taken to the ways of the air, does that the same distance between Port Lemon in the Atlantic and Puntarenas in the Pacific, covers in only one hour fifteen minutes with flight in express airplane. Thus it is explained, how it is that to some tourists, it astonishes to them from highest mountainous summits of the country, the vision of both oceans simultaneously. Geographically the coastal development of the country, from End Castile in the Mouth of the San Juan River (in the North border) to the Mouth of the Sixaola River (in the South border) gives in the Atlantic a length of 212 kilometers and one of 1,016 kilometers in the Pacific, from Landmarks (in the North border) to the Fixed call of Burica (in the South border). 
In these 1,228 kilometers of the coralline and políperas the most splendid coast some of formation of Central America hide together with the always dominant presence of the neighboring forest. The landscape begins to the north of the country, by the side of the Pacific, with the semicircular vision of the Bay of Salt mines, to the bottom of which extensive gray sand beaches are opened to per it and some of the sites of more famous sport fishing are located. From that end point, they are possible to be located in this coast around 100 beaches whose variations of form, color, type of sand, temperature of the water and landscape turn them the best ones of Central America. It is possible to stress yes, that which it is next to the Pacific that Costa Rica offers the greater facility for attention of the foreign tourist, in form of hotels and infrastructure that, without being beaten exactly to the coast like in other places of the world, is the enough fence like so that it is possible to be traveled in few minutes, from a comfortable hotel or a small town, to the sunny beach solitude extensive all the year, that limit with manglares and rivers of incommensurable beauty, some of which are true sanctuaries of the flora and the tropical fauna of the country. One of these incredible places is called Cuajiniquil, to the bottom of the bay in which the surge as soon as it is perceived and waters more seems the surface of a blue pool that open sea.
Cuajiniquil has the particularitity to open its extensive beach, of white sand and smooth inclination, in a sandy end behind which a river runs, two matting are opened and exist several brooks that give to the contour the appearance him of an island. The artisan fishermen who live in the zone, specialize in providing the travellers of refined gastronomical tastes, with delicious marine meals like squid, fish cooked to the grill, cocktails of the delicious meat of the snail cambute and clam reigns and mixtures with percebes, ostiones and pianguas. In some other neighboring beaches to Cuajiniquil like those of Nancite and Naranjo, to the South end of the National Park of Santa Rosa, the nature has mounted during the months of April, May, June, July and August, some incredible spectacles that they reflect the indestructible regularity of the biological cycle in certain species animals. In Nancite, for example, there are months of the year in which the beach is covered literally with turtles, without it is left only a free space of them, is a fantastic vision of fins, legs and shells of diverse colors that move like a strange ballet. This same zoological, unique vision in the world, occurs in beaches of Tortuguero in the Atlantic, where it stops August, September and October it gets to lay eggs the famous green turtle (Chelonia mydas), that summarizes the most dynamic picture of the quelonios that live in the turns of the Caribbean Sea.
Also it has served as inspiration for the shooting of documentary cinematographic made by the Geographic Society of the United States, by The World Wildlife Fund and the scientific society of Jacques Cousteau, whose Phillipe son, already disappear, on board made several trips of exploration of his famous airplane “Calypso” and of the oceanographic ship “Calypso” to Tortuguero. There are places of the country in which really one does not know if the beach dominates to the forest or the forest to the beach. This it is the case of Manuel Antonio, in waters of the Pacific near Puerto Quepos, in the call borders the coast of the South Pacific. Here literally, the forest is offed-hook on the sand of the beach and the tourist is astonished to find, pursuing in the low shrubs and the sand, gigantic herds of the Tití Monkey, one of the most attractive animals between the family of such, whose yellow color orange and its ignited eyes, to him do desired like mascot.
This same sensation of solitude, of powerful communication with the nature, of virginity and purity, acquires the traveller who visits Cahuita the south of Lemon, in the Atlantic coast. Cahuita, in addition has the particularitity of being the prolongation towards the south most characteristic of the coralline barriers that extend throughout the coasts of the Caribbean in Central America. The bottoms of the reef in this part, for which they love the diving, are ideal, the transparent waters give field to a tight vision of polyps, forests of seaweed and incredibly colorful shoals of fish of fish of all the forms and all the species known in Caribbean waters. As well as it dominates to the reef, being typical the picture of the galleons sunk in Century XVII in its depths, dominates the amazonian green thickness of the Atlantic forest in the coastal contours of Parismina, Matina here, Pacuare and Tortuguero in the north of the Caribbean. Beaches of this portion of earth selváticas reach through trips that leave Port Lemon, in cruises which usually they use the route of the artificial channels, lakes, rivers and matting, that throughout 112 kilometers communicate inner to Lemon (the main Costa Rican port Atlantic) with the distant Bar of the Colorado, in the northeast part of the country.
The most famous beaches of the North Pacific are: The Coco, Bay Snake, Panama Beach, Beautiful Beach, Conchal, Brasilito, Tamarind, Junquillal, Nosara and Sámara. Of all of them the one of Conchal she is the one that denotes the greatest difference of composition, because its contour, instead of being fine sand place setting, is covered with shells, moluscos and snails in a crazy amount. This is what indicates so that a tourist in Costa Rica, if she takes the course from the coast for his vacations, never gets to get tired. The truth of surprise changes in beaches, is a comparable truth easily. Good it is to also speak of the point towards which one moves, by aged tradition, the greater amount of foreign and national tourism: Puntarenas. Old more important port of the Pacific, is simultaneously the true springboard from which the placenteras excursions to remote beaches of the interior of the immense Gulf of Nicoya can be obtained.
From here, in trips by yacht, the beaches of lsla can be reached Cedars, of Deer, San Lucas, Chira, and Turtle, in addition to which is in the Bay of Whale, like Tambor. Also it is possible to take ferry to cross in one hour of navigation, the average part of the Gulf, and to enjoy Playa Naranjo and other that are in the peninsular outer part of nicoyanas earth. In the central part of the Pacific, reasonable, comfortable and they are very visited, the beaches of Doña Ana, Ravine Mouth, Bush of Limón and Tivives, just like it has much reputation the one that is reached about the route of Orotina and takes the name of Jacó. To that they go beyond the traditional thing of the near thing, of the feasibly most comfortable thing, the country offers unique opportunities to find its landscape them wished in the dimension of Carate, Drake, Bent Beach of and Weeping, which they comprise of the most attractive possibilities of the South Pacific.
During hundreds of years the gold prospectors have crossed millimeter to millimeter these places, in search of longed for “nuggets”, and legend, some fantastic times is counted here, on the good luck of some of them. Around years 60 in the call Island Violin, that in fact is not such island but a continental portion surrounded by some little streams and the Sierpe River, a finder found a solid gold rock of 24 pounds of weight. With all these alternatives, with all these incentives,
tantísima amount of probable adventures, peace, beauty and pleasure, the beaches
of Costa Rica is a permanent invitation for the tourists of all parts of the
world, that they want to leave cement, skyscraper back, human masses, and to
travel in search of a little solitude. |
The advantage that offers Costa Rica is that the distances that separate to the
San Jose capital, of main beaches and coastal cords, does not mean serious
problem nor forces expensive displacements, which is united to the incredible
tourist reality of which a person that travel in automobile to the rate of 80
kilometers per hour, it can efectamente be consumed in the morning in waters
from the Atlantic Ocean to 8, undertake trip to 10, and be diving in waters from
the Pacific to 5 of afternoon, still with the sun to bronze a little very well
the more. 
The
unusual congregation of turtles in these Costa Rican beaches has called the
attention of famous scientists like the Dr Archie Carr, of the University of
Gainsville, Florida, who have written whole books on the phenomenon and the
beauty of native beaches.
When
reading any narration on neighboring Quepos, Manuel Antonio, Espadilla and other
places, achieves the accuracy that its magnetism is so powerful, that they have
not been able to save of him authors known by his scientific parquedad like the
Dr Hans Webber and the Dr Christopher Menton, whose stories in some ends, fall
in an almost transparent poetry, that traveling by those latitudes can one
include/understand and only understand its birth.
Returning
to the Pacific, there are three more or less strict differences that the Costa
Ricans as far as the classification do of their beaches: the North Pacific, the
Central Pacific and the South Pacific.
Puntarenas
is a city dedicated entirely to the tourism and the fishing. The greater coastal
tourist infrastructure of the country is located in its extension, that
geographically and from the air, resembles an extended finger deepening waters
of the sea and the matting that surrounds it by the north.
All
these coastal territories of the South Pacific very are known because in the
rivers that desembocon in them, the neighboring forests and some geographic
features that limit them, abounds aluvional gold.