Please contact us for rental car agency suggestions, or check this link to information on Costa Rica Car Rental Companies . The northwest coast of Costa Rica is as different from the east coast as the Mediterranean is from Malibu. Amazing, in a country as tiny as Costa Rica, but visitors who emerge from the humidity of the Caribbean tropical forest and, in less than a day's time, travel to the arid northwest, often think they must be in a different country. It is a land of cotton, rice, sugar cane, soybeans, and cattle. Half the year its heated plains, plateaus, and rolling hills lie dry, almost totally without rain.
Local activity revolves around the cooler early morning and late afternoon.
Less than 65 inches of rain falls each year. The souls of the Costa Ricans are found in the pueblos and village fiestas. The people living here have ties to old blood lines of the Chorotega Indians. The Guanacaste province, named after the stately tree common in this area, was first a possession of Spain, and then given over to Nicaragua. Costa Rica didn't gain ownership until 1824.