Puntarenas Province
Puntarenas
Isla Del Coco

Cocos Island

Cocos Island is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean administered by , approximately 550 km southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. It constitutes the 11th of the 15 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica
  • Also known as: “Coco Island”, “Isla de Cocos”, “Isla del Coco District”, and “Isle du Coques”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cocos Island National Park.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cocos Island is a nationally protected jungle-covered island and national park off the coast of . The park also includes surrounding ocean surface of about 60,000 square miles that were added to the park to protect several species of shark.

Cocos Island

Latitude
5.528° or 5° 31′ 41″ north
Longitude
-87.06275° or 87° 3′ 46″ west
Elevation
283 metres (928 feet)
Open location code
66QJGWHP+6W
Geo­Names ID
3624182
Wiki­data ID
Q215081
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cocos Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة كوكوس”
  • Armenian: “Կոկոս”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Isla del Coco”
  • Asturian: “Isla del Coco”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kokos Adası Milli Parkı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kokos adası”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Cocos”
  • Basque: “Koko uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Какос”
  • Belarusian: “Какос”
  • Bulgarian: “Кокос”
  • Catalan: “Illa del Coco”
  • Cebuano: “Isla del Coco”
  • Cherokee: “ᎪᎪᏍ (ᎩᎵᏂ) ᏚᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “科科岛”
  • Chinese: “科科島”
  • Chinese: “科科斯岛”
  • Croatian: “Kokosov otok”
  • Czech: “Isla del Coco”
  • Czech: “Kokosový ostrov”
  • Danish: “Cocos Island National Park”
  • Danish: “Isla del Coco”
  • Dutch: “Cocoseiland”
  • Dutch: “Isla del Coco”
  • Dutch: “Kokoseiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره كوكوس”
  • Esperanto: “Kokos-insulaj humidaj arbaroj”
  • Esperanto: “Kokos-insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Kokosa insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Kokosa Insulo”
  • Estonian: “Isla del Coco”
  • Estonian: “Kookosesaar”
  • Estonian: “Kookossaar”
  • Finnish: “Kookossaari”
  • French: “Ile Cocos”
  • French: “île Cocos”
  • French: “Île Cocos”
  • Galician: “Coco, Costa Rica”
  • Galician: “Coco”
  • Georgian: “ქოქოსი”
  • German: “Cocos-Insel”
  • German: “Isla de Coco”
  • German: “Isla del Coco”
  • German: “Kokos-Insel”
  • Greek: “Κόκος Νήσος”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Κόκος”
  • Hebrew: “אי הקוקוס”
  • Hungarian: “Kókusz-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Cocos”
  • Italian: “Isola del Cocco”
  • Italian: “Isola del Coco”
  • Italian: “Parco nazionale Isola del Coco”
  • Japanese: “ココス島”
  • Japanese: “ココ島”
  • Japanese: “ココ島国立公園”
  • Kazakh: “Кокос аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Кокос”
  • Korean: “코코 섬”
  • Korean: “코코섬”
  • Korean: “코코스 섬”
  • Latvian: “Kokosa”
  • Limburgan: “Cocoseilandj”
  • Lithuanian: “Kokosų sala”
  • Macedonian: “Кокосов Остров”
  • Malay: “Isla del Coco”
  • Malayalam: “കൊക്കോസ് ഐലൻറ്”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Cocos”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Cocos”
  • Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali tal-Gżira ta‘ Cocos”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kokos-Eilun (Costa Rica)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kokos-Eilun”
  • Northern Sami: “Isla del Coco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cocos Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cocosøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isla del Coco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kokosøya nasjonalpark”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kokosøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kokosøya”
  • Norwegian: “Kokosøya”
  • Persian: “جزیره کوکوس”
  • Polish: “Isla del Coco”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Isla del Coco”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Wyspy Kokosowej”
  • Polish: “Parque Nacional Isla del Coco”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Kokosowa”
  • Portuguese: “Coco”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Cocos”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha do Coco”
  • Portuguese: “Parque Nacional da Ilha do Coco”
  • Pushto: “کوکوس ټاپوګان”
  • Romanian: “Insula Cocos”
  • Russian: “Кокос”
  • Russian: “Остров Кокос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kokosov otok”
  • Slovak: “Kokosový ostrov”
  • Spanish: “Isla del Coco”
  • Swedish: “Cocos Island”
  • Swedish: “Isla del Coco”
  • Tamil: “கோகோஸ் தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Кокос утравы”
  • Turkish: “Cocos Adası”
  • Turkish: “Cocos Island”
  • Turkish: “Isla del Coco”
  • Turkish: “Kokos Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Кокос”
  • Ukrainian: “Кокосовий острів”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Кокос”
  • Uzbek: “Kokos (orol)”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Cocos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purô Cocos”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Cocos”

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