Picking the right components is a fundamental part of fine tuning a bike to any form of riding. When the comfort, speed, acceleration, deceleration, weight, performance, durability, strength, control, and responsiveness of a bike all depend on picking the right parts, it’s important to know what to ...
More than a year has passed since the opening of Copper & Stone Gourmet Grocery, which is town’s first grocery store and also offers a deli, coffee and smoothies, and a wide selection of wine and spirits.
Dry season brings quite a few changes to the behavior of animals in the tropical dry forest of Guanacaste, who must respond to the differences in availability of foliage and water.
Located at the top of the staircase leading from Plaza del Mercado, 7 Paseo Miraflores has a significant role in the neighborhood. Due to this position, which intersects the lively, active and entertainment zone created by Plaza del Mercado and the quiet residential pedestrian street Paseo ...
Almost all ecosystems exhibit some seasonality. In temperate regions, these changes can be seen in the changes from winter, spring, summer and fall, which can be drastic closer to the poles. In more tropical regions, the most prominent change is usually from wet to dry seasons.
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.
There’s often something new to discover in Las Catalinas, like the La Plaza, on Wednesday nights from 5:30 to 8:30pm.
As the car-free movement proceeds around the world, people and town planners continue to innovate new ways to make towns and cities more sustainable and human centered by limiting the involvement of automobiles in life.
About a month after the arrival of the summer in Costa Rica, the first of Las Fiestas begin in Guanacaste. These traveling festivals move from town to town throughout the summer and are based in Guanacaste’s rich pastoral history, featuring events like the Tope and Corridas de Toros, alongside ...
Part of the founding vision of Las Catalinas was to create a place that would be beautiful. Beauty can be hard to quantify or measure, but the effect that a beautiful town or city can have on the people who live there can be very tangible. People are happier. They’re more active, and spend more ...
Ground is broken on Casa Luker, a home that welcomes those arriving in town from Camino Las Catalinas onto Calle Cartagena, borders the Monkey Corridor, and presents the terminating vista for Calle Virginia.
The area now known as Guanacaste has been a part of Costa Rica in some form since the Anexión del Partido de Nicoya in 1824, just three years after the independence of Costa Rica in 1821.
For athletes, one of the balances of family vacation is pursuing the intensity and consistency of a training routine while also spending time with family, and taking time for the leisure activities of vacation. The key is finding a destination that suits all of these criteria, and also has a wide ...
Halloween is a particular favorite holiday in Las Catalinas for a number of reasons, and 2019’s Halloween celebration showed why. Town came to life with parents and kids of all ages, who set out to trick-or-treat the walkable streets and cap off the evening with a beachfront Halloween festival of ...
At the town’s founding, 80% of the land in Las Catalinas was set aside in perpetuity for the rejuvenation of a tropical dry forest reserve. In this way, Las Catalinas could grow in harmony with the environment, and maintain a constant connection to the natural beauty of Guanacaste.
The casado is one of the iconic national dishes of Costa Rica, and one of the building blocks of the Costa Rican diet. Translating to “married man”, these lunches first came to prominence back in the 20th century, and traditionally included rice, beans, a protein, a salad, a vegetable picadillo, ...
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