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The Guanacaste province is located on the North Pacific of
Costa Rica. It is one of the regions with the lowest rainfall in the country
and almost all the territory is covered by a dry tropical forest. Guanacaste
is the folkloric province of the country and the rural landscape has many attractive
villages and the people are kind and friendly. The coast has many magnificent
beaches and bays with all kinds of hotels. Though little tangible remains of
the dance, music and folklore for which the region is famous, there is undeniably
something special, affecting even, about the place. Granted that much of the
landscape has come about essentiallly through the slaughter of tropical dry
forest, it is still some of the prettiest you will see in the country, especially
in the wet season, when wide open spaces, stretching from the ocean across savannah
grasses to the brooding humps of volcanos, are washed in a beautifully muted
range of earth tones, blues, yellows and mauves.
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The capital is Liberia, which has an international airport.
You can use one of the domestic airlines to fly from San Jose to Liberia and
organize a transfer from there to the beach resorts or fly directly to some
of the beach destinations like indicated in our domestic flights section.
Most of this region is covered by a dry tropical forest and
its transitions. This is the region where it rains the least in Costa Rica and
where the dry season lasts the longest. The rainy season starts at the end of
May and lasts until the end of November. The rainiest months are September,
October and the first half of November. From June to August you can expect some
thunderstorms, mainly in the afternoon. Temperatures are always above 90°
F and could get to 100° - 110° F by midday from February to April.
