Costa Rica
Puntarenas Province
Puntarenas

Puntarenas

Puntarenas is a city in the , on the Pacific coast of . As the seat of the Municipality of Puntarenas canton, it is awarded the title of city, which comprises the Puntarenas, and El Roble districts.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Puntarenas and Estadio Lito Pérez.

Beach
Photo: Andrés Berrocal Soto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a beach.

Stadium
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Estadio Municipal de Puntarenas Miguel Ángel "Lito" Pérez Treacy is a multi-use in Puntarenas Centro, , . It is nicknamed “La Olla Mágica” due to the warm weather that is common in the stadium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aranjuez.

Hamlet
was a settlement founded in 1568 by the Governor Pero Afán de Ribera y Gómez. It was situated on the banks of the and was a short distance from the Pacific Ocean coast where a pier, known as the Ribera port, simultaneously emerged. is situated 10 km northeast of Puntarenas.

Puntarenas

Latitude
9.97733° or 9° 58′ 38″ north
Longitude
-84.83464° or 84° 50′ 5″ west
Population
70,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
JAP
United Nations Location Code
CR PAS
Open location code
66XQX5G8+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 276517532
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3622228
Wiki­data ID
Q30687
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Puntarenas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بونتاريناس”
  • Armenian: “Պունտարենաս”
  • Asturian: “Puntarenas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puntarenas”
  • Basque: “Puntarenas”
  • Bengali: “পোন্টারেনাস”
  • Breton: “Puntarenas”
  • Catalan: “Puntarenas”
  • Cebuano: “Puntarenas (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Puntarenas”
  • Chinese: “蓬塔雷納斯”
  • Croatian: “Puntarenas”
  • Czech: “Puntarenas”
  • Danish: “Puntarenas”
  • Dutch: “Puntarenas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بونتاريناس”
  • Finnish: “Puntarenas”
  • French: “Puntarenas”
  • Georgian: “პუნტარენასი”
  • German: “Puntarenas”
  • Greek: “Πουνταρένας”
  • Gujarati: “પન્ટારેનસ”
  • Hebrew: “פונטרנס”
  • Hindi: “पुन्टारेनास”
  • Hungarian: “Puntarenas”
  • Indonesian: “Puntarenas”
  • Italian: “Puntarenas”
  • Japanese: “プンタレーナス”
  • Japanese: “プンタレナス”
  • Kannada: “ಪಂಟಾರೆನಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “푼타레나스”
  • Kotava: “Puntarenas”
  • Ladino: “Puntarenas”
  • Latvian: “Puntarenasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Puntarenasas”
  • Malay: “Puntarenas”
  • Marathi: “पंटारेनास”
  • Marathi: “पुंतारेनास”
  • Nauru: “Puntarenas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puntarenas”
  • Northern Sami: “Puntarenas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puntarenas”
  • Norwegian: “Puntarenas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Puntarenas”
  • Persian: “پونتارناس”
  • Polish: “Puntarenas”
  • Portuguese: “Puntarenas”
  • Quechua: “Puntarenas”
  • Romanian: “Puntarenas”
  • Russian: “Пунтаренас (Коста-Рика)”
  • Russian: “Пунтаренас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puntarenas”
  • Sinhala: “පන්ටරෙනාස්”
  • Slovenian: “Puntarenas”
  • Spanish: “Puntarenas”
  • Swedish: “Puntarenas”
  • Tamil: “புண்டாரேனஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Пунтаренас”
  • Telugu: “పుంటరేనాస్”
  • Thai: “ปุนตาเรนัส”
  • Turkish: “Puntarenas”
  • Ukrainian: “Пунтаренас”
  • Urdu: “پونتاریناس”
  • Vietnamese: “Puntarenas”
  • Volapük: “Puntarenas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puntarenas”
  • Welsh: “Puntarenas”
  • “Puntarenas, Costa Rica”

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