Nicoya
Nicoya is the main town of the Nicoya Peninsula, in Guanacaste Costa Rica. It has limited appeal for tourists but is a commercial center with more transportation connections than the small rural and beach towns of the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 29,000 residents
- Description: district in Nicoya canton, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Nicoya de Nicoya”
- Postal code: 50201
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nicoya Airport.
Nicoya Airport
Aerodrome
Nicoya Airport is an airport serving the city of Nicoya in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. The airport is owned and managed by the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barra Honda National Park.
Barra Honda National Park
Photo: Shamhain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barra Honda National Park is in the northern Nicoya Peninsula in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica. The park protects a densely forested mountain but is most famous for its extensive underground world of limestone caverns, formed by water erosion over millions of years.
Nicoya
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.14922° or 10° 8′ 57″ northLongitude
-85.45312° or 85° 27′ 11″ westPopulation
29,000Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)IATA airport code
NCTUnited Nations Location Code
CR NCTOpen location code
762P4GXW+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 790503307OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3622716Wikidata ID
Q2486629
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Nicoya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيكوجا”
- Armenian: “Նիկոյա”
- Asturian: “distritu de Nicoya”
- Asturian: “Nicoya”
- Catalan: “Nicoya, Costa Rica”
- Catalan: “Nicoya”
- Cebuano: “Nicoya”
- Chinese: “尼科亚”
- Chinese: “尼科亞”
- Dutch: “Nicoya”
- French: “Nicoya”
- German: “Nicoya”
- Greek: “Νικόγια”
- Italian: “Nicoya”
- Japanese: “ニコヤ”
- Kotava: “Nicoya”
- Lithuanian: “Nikoja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicoya”
- Norwegian: “Nicoya”
- Polish: “Nicoya (Kostaryka)”
- Polish: “Nicoya”
- Romanian: “Nicoya”
- Russian: “Никоя”
- Slovenian: “Nicoya”
- Spanish: “Nicoya de Nicoya”
- Spanish: “Nicoya”
- Swedish: “Nicoya”
- Ukrainian: “Нікоя”
- Volapük: “Nicoya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nicoya”
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Highlights include La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días and Hospital de La Anexión.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nicoya”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.