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Palmar Sur is a town in Costa Rica, located next to Palmar Norte in the Osa region of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] Palmar Norte and Palmar Sur are separated by the Rio Terraba. Palmar Sur has a regional airport that has daily flights arriving from San Jose on two regional airlines (Sansa and Nature Air). [3] Coordinates: 8°58′N83°27′W / 8.967°N 83.450°W
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of 51,060 km2 (19,710 sq mi). An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area.
Palmar may refer to:
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Nuevo Palmar Sur Airport is an airport serving the hamlets of Finca (farm) 10 and Finca 5 in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. The runway is 6 kilometres (4 mi) southwest of the town of Palmar Sur. There is distant mountainous terrain to the north.
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Palmar is a district of the Osa canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
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National Primary Route 34, official name Carretera Pacífica Fernández Oreamuno, and popularly known as Carretera Costanera Sur, or just Route 34, is a National Road Route and scenic route of Costa Rica, located in the Alajuela, Puntarenas provinces that connects Route 27 and Route 2 mostly along the central and south Pacific coast of the country, and is the recommended route over the Pan-American Highway when traveling between the south of the country to the Greater Metropolitan Area.
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