Costa Rica Travel Atlas

£7.99

Indexed tourist atlas, with additional street plans and maps of several popular regions. Road detail distinguishes tarred and untarred roads and shows intermediate driving distances on main routes. Main railways, ferries and airports are marked. The publisher’s chosen method for conveying most effectively the best routes to the locations and regions of interest is to reduce distracting details. Consequently, compared with some other maps for the same region, this map omits some minor routes and the elevation tinting showing the general relief is in unobtrusive shades. Some mountain ranges are named and selected peak and volcano heights are marked, and swamp areas are shown. Reserves, protected areas, marine reserves and national parks are clearly highlighted and Indian reserves and provinces are shown. Symbols show major petrol stations, border posts, places of interest, ruins, lighthouses, beaches and watersport resorts. No latitude and longitude lines are marked.

Preceeding the general atlas pages is the tourist map section which shows 24 popular areas and city centres at various scales. These maps, like the general atlas maps, are accompanied by text on the localities’ attractions, and also provided are useful contact details for further tourist information. Regions covered include: the Guanacaste Coast, Peninsual de Osa, San José and surroundings, the South Caribbean coast (Puerto Limón to the Panama border), Tortuguro, the Monteverde area, the Quepos/Manuel Antonio area. Also included are clear street plans of central Liberia, Heredia, Cartago, Puerto Limón, Puntarenas and Alajuela. These are not indexed but show local sites of interest, notable buildings and visitor facilities e.g. hotels, post offices, museums, hospitals and information centres. One further map provides and overview of the country’s collection of national parks and other protected areas, accompanied by a summary of the parks’ essential features. The text and the main atlas section are indexed and the legend is in English, German and French.