October in Costa Rica brings with it some unique green season weather patterns throughout the country, which brings with it a few changes in nature.
Homecoming weekend happens late in the year every year, and is a celebration for Las Catalinas homeowners. In 2019, the celebration coincided with the annual Halloween Celebration, and things were lively in town. These two traditions have become staples of the year, and put town’s beauty, ...
Casa Ventanas has recently joined the Las Catalinas Collection as a Bon Vivant lodging option, and can now be booked starting in February of 2020. Designed by Ricardo Arosemena, this home was envisioned to capture the views of the Punta Penca hillside and emphasize indoor-outdoor living throughout ...
Diners Club International covered the Santarena Hotel in its recent “Detour to Paradise” feature, highlighting four travel options ranging from Costa Rica to the coast of Europe. The magazine aims to provide the global citizen with a wide range of travel, dining, products, and services that are ...
The ocean is a vast and mysterious place even to those who know it well. In fact, as much as 95% of the ocean, and as well as 99% of the ocean floor remain unexplored. The chance to explore this environment, which covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface, is a big part of the allure of scuba ...
Throughout the year in Costa Rica, different fruits and vegetables throughout the country come into season, offering a colorful variety to meals and snacks.
September 15th is el Día de la Independencia in Costa Rica, the 198th anniversary of the nation’s separation from Spain, on September 15th, 1821. Costa Rica shares this national holiday with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
October rains across the country bring with them full rushing rivers, elevating mild rapids in the country to healthy levels and turning the more active rapids in the country into truly thrilling rides.
At the UN General Assembly Costa Rica was among the headlines for President Carlos Alvarado’s speech to world leaders on climate change, sustainability, and the protection of the environment.
There are many ways that the push away from fossil-fuel powered transport and towards more sustainable mobility is making progress around the world, focusing primarily on making technology of transport more renewable.
For many families, summer in Costa Rica means a family trip to the coast. In Guanacaste, days full of sun during this time of year are well suited to outdoor activities, and Las Catalinas is a town that particularly fits summer family vacations in Costa Rica.
The Cacao or cocoa plant, is native to Central America, where consumption of the drink was prominent among ancient civilizations like the Aztec, the Maya, and the Olmec among others. In fact, chocolate residue from early forms of the drink has been discovered in Nicaraguan pottery dating back to ...
The first 19 days of January have some significance in Costa Rica, due to something called Las Pintas. Las Pintas is a Costa Rican folk belief which says that the weather in the first part of January “paints” the weather for the rest of the year, and serves as a predictive insight for how much rain ...
Las Catalinas and Guanacaste Wildlife Monitoring partnered to place and monitor motion-activated cameras throughout the tropical dry forest nature reserve in town. The primary purpose of this project is to document the Costa Rican wildlife in the area, and in doing so understand the effects of ...
School is back in full swing all across Guanacaste, and ConnectOcean is hard at work on their outreach and education programs for schools in the area.
The Cartagena Flats have finished construction and are now in the last stages of adding furnishings, detail work, other final touches to these one and two bedroom beach flats.
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