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- Parks and public spaces 1 Plazas and public-use spaces where you can spend time without paying or buying anything. In La Fortuna the central park is where town life gathers; in…
- Rivers and swimming holes 1 Rivers here come down from very rainy mountains and can rise in one or two minutes, sometimes without the water changing colour first. We only publish…
- Volcano and lake views 4 Almost every named viewpoint in the area is private and charges admission. The free views we could back up are in public spaces: downtown La Fortuna, …
- Lake Arenal 3 Today's Lake Arenal was formed by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) dam, inaugurated in 1979, and covers 87 km². The Costa Rica Tourism Boar…
- Towns and communities 2 Walking through a town costs nothing and tells you a lot about the area. Around the lake there are communities with their own stories: Nuevo Arenal wa…
- History and culture 3 The area's history can be read in its places: the town once called El Burío, the 1968 eruption, the lake that changed size and the towns that moved. W…