Nicoya Peninsula

The main transport and commercial centre in the region is Nicoya, one of the oldest settlements in Costa Rica.

There is an international airport in nearby Liberia and small domestic airstrips in Nosara, Carrillo, Tamarindo and Tambor.

[1] There are a number of nature reserves and wildlife refuges such as Cabo Blanco, Camaronal, Cueva Murciélago, Curú, La Ceiba, Romelia and the Diriá National Park, as well as the projects on the islands of the adjacent Gulf of Nicoya.

[3] The peninsula has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of great curassows, lesser ground-cuckoos, Hudsonian whimbrels, Pacific screech-owls, Hoffmann's woodpeckers, orange-fronted parakeets, long-tailed manakins, white-throated magpie-jays and banded wrens.

[5][6] The region was featured in the book Blue Zones, by Dan Buettner, which focused on the longevity found among Nicoya's residents.