Tamarindo
Tamarindo is in Costa Rica. Located on the Pacific Coast, Tamarindo is a popular destination for couples and families looking for a good time. With spectacular beaches and rainforests, Tamarindo is the epitome of everything that Costa Rica prides itself on.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 9,000 residents
- Description: district in Santa Cruz canton, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Tamarindo de Santa Cruz” and “Tamarindo, Costa Rica”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tamarindo Airport.
Tamarindo Airport
Aerodrome
Tamarindo Airport is a private airport that serves Tamarindo, a coastal resort in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica. It receives daily scheduled flights from San José and Liberia, and private charter services are available. Tamarindo Airport is situated 3½ km northeast of Tamarindo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Playa Grande.
Playa Grande
Photo: Cal Wolfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Playa Grande is a town in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica, just north of Tamarindo. It comprises most of Parque Nacional Marino Laus Baulas, the most important nesting site in Central America for the giant leatherback sea turtle.
Tamarindo
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Tamarindo, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.29841° or 10° 17′ 54″ northLongitude
-85.83995° or 85° 50′ 24″ westPopulation
9,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
TNOOpen location code
762P75X6+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 773366360OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tamarindo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاماريندو”
- Armenian: “Տամարինդո”
- Asturian: “distritu de Tamarindo”
- Asturian: “Tamarindo”
- Chinese: “塔馬林多區”
- Dutch: “Tamarindo, Costa Rica”
- French: “Tamarindo”
- German: “Tamarindo”
- Italian: “Tamarindo”
- Japanese: “タマリンド (コスタリカ)”
- Lithuanian: “Tamarindas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamarindo”
- Norwegian: “Tamarindo”
- Polish: “Tamarindo”
- Portuguese: “Playa Tamarindo”
- Portuguese: “Tamarindo”
- Russian: “Tamarindo”
- Russian: “Тамариндо”
- Spanish: “Playa Tamarindo”
- Spanish: “Tamarindo de Santa Cruz”
- Spanish: “Tamarindo, Costa Rica”
- Spanish: “Tamarindo”
- Vietnamese: “Tamarindo, Costa Rica”
- Vietnamese: “Tamarindo”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Langosta and Lourdes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Villas Macondo and Parque de Tamarindo.
Guanacaste: Must-Visit Destinations
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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 “Tamarindo”. Photo: WClarke, CC BY-SA 4.0.