page_title: Lake Arenal
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Arenal / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Public Lake access at the Tico Wind peninsula.
context_page_description: Lake Arenal is a lake which is situated in the northern highlands of Costa Rica. It is currently the largest lake in Costa Rica at 85-square-kilometre. Its depth varies between 30 and 60 meters seasonally.
  The town of Arenal was relocated to higher ground when the lake was expanded in 1979. The old towns of Arenal and Tronadora now lie abandoned at the bottom of the lake, with the new town of Arenal existing to the northeast on the lake.
caption: Lake Arenal windsurf and kite surf beach at the Tico Wind peninsula
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