La Gamba
La Gamba is a village in the Guaycará District of Golfito canton, which is part of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica. Village inhabitants are employed in agriculture and in jobs offered in cities such as Golfito and Rio Claro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Puntarenas state, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Gamba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Golfito.
Golfito
Photo: Federico Mata, CC BY 3.0.
Golfito is a port town in South Pacific Costa Rica. It's across from the Osa Peninsula on the Golfo Dulce. Golfito has long been known to surfers as the gateway to Pavones, just to the south, and to sport fishermen as the year-round sport fishing destination.
La Gamba
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
8.70797° or 8° 42′ 29″ northLongitude
-83.18473° or 83° 11′ 5″ westElevation
70 metres (230 feet)Open location code
66WRPR58+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 3593127607OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
Discover La Gamba from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“La Gamba” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “La Gamba”
- Dutch: “La Gamba”
- French: “La Gamba, Costa Rica”
- French: “La Gamba”
- German: “La Gamba”
- Spanish: “La Gamba”
- Swedish: “La Gamba”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bolsa and Río Bonito.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas - Centro Operativo La Gamba and Iglesia de La Gamba.
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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 Wikipedia page “La Gamba”. Photo: Henry Zbyszynski, CC BY 2.0.