Puntarenas Province
Garabito
Jacó

Jacó

Jacó is one of the two largest tourist towns on the Central Pacific Coast of . It is a surfing town with a 4-km long black sand beach and several local surf shops where you can get a board or sign up for lessons.
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  • Type: Town with 20,000 residents
  • Description: district in Garabito canton, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica
  • Also known as: “Jacó de Garabito” and “Jacó, Costa Rica”

Jacó

Latitude
9.61564° or 9° 36′ 56″ north
Longitude
-84.62813° or 84° 37′ 41″ west
Population
20,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CR JAC
Open location code
66XQJ98C+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7310986869
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3623369
Wiki­data ID
Q1463601
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Jacó” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “distritu de Jacó”
  • Asturian: “Jacó”
  • Catalan: “Jacó, Costa Rica”
  • Cebuano: “Jacó”
  • Chinese: “哈科區”
  • Dutch: “Jacó, Costa Rica”
  • French: “Jacó”
  • German: “Jacó”
  • Hungarian: “Jacó”
  • Italian: “Jacó”
  • Japanese: “ハコ”
  • Kotava: “Jacó (Costa Rica)”
  • Kotava: “Jacó”
  • Lithuanian: “Chako”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jacó”
  • Norwegian: “Jacó”
  • Polish: “Jacó”
  • Romanian: “Jacó”
  • Spanish: “Jacó de Garabito”
  • Spanish: “Jaco”
  • Spanish: “Jacó”
  • Swedish: “Jacó”

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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 “Jacó”. Photo: Milei.vencel, CC BY-SA 3.0.