Puntarenas is a canton in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. The head city is Puntarenas. Puntarenas was created on 7 December 1848 by decree 167. Puntarenas has an area of 1,842.33 km² and a mean elevation of 169 metres. The canton includes areas on both sides of the Gulf of Nicoya. The southern portion of the Nicoya Peninsula is also in the canton, including the popular tourist areas of Tambor, Montezuma and Malpais. The canton of Puntarenas is subdivided into the following districts: Monte Verde was the ninth district of the canton, on 29 September 2021 it was segregated to become a canton on its own, the Monteverde canton, the twelfth of Puntarenas province and eighty third of the country. More information...
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