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South Pacific Costa Rica is likely the greenest part of the country, and contains a number of national parks, such as the Chirripo National Park.
Cantons of Buenos Aires, Corredores, Puerto Cortés, Palmar, Sierpe, Piedras Blancas, Bahía Ballena, and Coto Brus.
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You can fly to Puerto Jiménez or cross the Golfo Dulce from Golfito in a launch (ferryboat) to reach the Osa Peninsula. Golfito is directly across from Puerto Jiménez, the main city near the tip of the Osa Peninsula.
Read in the guideThe "Costanera Sur" (a southern coastal road) is paved all the way from border to border.
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San Isidro de El General (sometimes referred to as Pérez Zeledón) is the capital and biggest city in the canton of Pérez Zeledon in South Pacific Costa Rica.
Dominical is a city in South Pacific Costa Rica. The number one attraction in Dominical is the beach.
Drake Bay is a city in the Osa Peninsula region of South Pacific Costa Rica.
Golfito is a port town in South Pacific Costa Rica. It's across from the Osa Peninsula on the Golfo Dulce.
Pavones is in South Pacific Costa Rica.
Playa Hermosa is a small settlement on the beach in South Pacific Costa Rica.
Puerto Jiménez is in the Osa Peninsula of South Pacific Costa Rica and is the primary jumping off point for Corcovado National Park. The city is not the most attractive locale.
Sierpe is a small town at the base of the Osa Peninsula in South Pacific Costa Rica. Known for being the place where you catch a boat to Drake Bay, it also offers riverside dining and mangrove tours, and is pleasantly walkable.
Uvita is a small town in South Pacific Costa Rica south of Dominical, and north of Ojochal.
A small village 30 km south of Pérez Zeledón which offers rural community tourism. It is a refugee project founded in 1979. Nowadays 400 families live in the community, growing mainly coffee and sugar cane besides the food they consume on their own. Tourism is still a supplementary income here and money goes straight into the families you stay with.
Piedras Blancas National Park preserves the Esquinas Rainforest and inland gulf beaches on the Golfo Dulce of Costa Rica's South Pacific region.
Parque Nacional Corcovado is on the Osa Peninsula in South Pacific Costa Rica.
Península Burica is in Chiriqui of Panama and South Pacific Costa Rica.
Matapalo is a village in South Pacific Costa Rica. It is in between Puerto Jimenez and Carate (southern entrance to Corcovado National Park) on the Osa Peninsula.
Carate is a small town in the Osa Peninsula of South Pacific Costa Rica near Corcovado National Park.
Parque Nacional Chirripó (Chirripó National Park) is a national park in South Pacific Costa Rica accessible by road through the locality of San Isidro de El General in Pérez Zeledón canton.
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