1 Calle La Ronda has recently entered the Las Catalinas Collection as part of the Baranda Homes. This four bedroom town home overlooks the lively streets looking towards the Santarena Hotel, with spacious terraces on three sides of the home that overlook lively streets, and an open-air courtyard ...
Many consumer-facing technologies follow a distinct arc in their physical designs. When technologies are in their infancy, like early cell phones, they are generally functionally built to provide the new service as effectively as possible.
Costa Rica has 10 times more marine area than it does landmass, and is home to a large biodiversity of fish that dwell in its open oceans, inshore coastlines, and mangroves. From the North Pacifc Coast to the seas of the Osa Peninsula and across to the Caribbean, this wealth of aquatic life makes ...
Thanksgiving is a holiday that isn’t nationally celebrated in Costa Rica, but fits well both with Costa Rica and Las Catalinas. Thanksgiving is a holiday centered around the idea of being grateful for what we have, and it presents a chance to step away from the busyness of modern society to slow ...
11 Calle Virginia is located right at the widening of Calle Virginia, which provides the home with natural significance in town. Wider parts of the street are often important urban elements within a town as focal points and pedestrian walking points of destination.
Pura Vida Ride is an integrated part of life in Las Catalinas, and has served as outdoor outfitter, repair shop, equipment rentals, event organizer for the Pura Vida Ride Paddle Battle, and frequent coffee spot for almost ten years.
Las Catalinas is a new town in Costa Rica that has used the well-studied techniques and designs that have succeeded in some of the world’s favorite towns and cities like Eze, San Sebastián, Seaside, and many more to create a people-centered place that emphasizes integration with nature and ...
Costa Rica has a significant geographic diversity compared to its size, with a number of environments that range from cloud-topped mountains to coastal lowlands, from arid grasslands to the heart of tropical rainforests, and a great deal in between.
The rhythms of nature are present in many forms in Las Catalinas. The ocean is just nearby, which changes constantly with the tides, the wind, the swell, and other factors like rainstorms near and far. Out in the forests, the cycle of seasons seasons, the sun, the moon, the clouds and the rain all ...
Oceanic Giant Manta Rays or Rayas Mantas (Manta Birostris) are the world's largest ray, reaching sizes of more than 20ft from wingtip to wingtip. Despite their size are one of the ocean’s most graceful and peaceful creatures, subsisting on a diet primarily of zooplankton like shrimp, krill, and ...
The arrival of December marks the start of a festive time around the world, with many cultures celebrating end of the year holidays.
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.
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