Alajuela Province
     
With the following Cantons: Alajuela San Ramón Grecia San Mateo Atenas Naranjo Palmares Poás Orotina San Carlos Alfaro Ruíz Valverde Vega Upala Los Chiles and Guatuso.
The area of the Alajuela Province stretches from the Central Highlands with the capital Alajuela, the second biggest town of Costa Rica, the Volcano Poás, and La Paz waterfalls with the biggest butterfly farm of the world, to the Northern Plains, with the Volcano Arenal, its Hot Springs, and Waterfalls, all way up to Nicaragua and has the longest border with this country. Alajuela has lots of Mountains, the largest sweet-water lake, the Arenal Lagoon, beautiful hotels and the International Airport Juán Santamaría near the capital.
Cartago Province
      
With the following Cantons:
Cartago
Paraíso
La Unión
Jiménez
Turrialba Alvarado
Oreamuno and
El Guarco.
Province with the capital with the same name features the famous Basilica, the best Technical University, lots of Mountains, Volcanoes and the best White Water Rafting opportunities in Costa Rica's Central Highlands. Cartago has numerous farmer villages with different plantations producing coffee, vegetables, sugar cane, potatoes, macadamia nuts, pejibayes, and ornamental plants. It has National Parks and Protected Wildlife Refuges like the Zapantí National Park, the Irazú Volcano National Park, and the Guayabo National Monument, which is the largest and most important archaeological site discovered in Costa Rica.
Guanacaste Province
      
With the following Cantons:
Liberia Nicoya
Santa Cruz
Bagaces
Carrillo
Cañas
Abangares
Tilarán
Nandayure
La Cruz and
Hojancha.
Liberia is the Capital of this hot and dry Province with the peninsula Nicoya to the south and bordering Nicaragua to the north. It features the so called beautiful "Gold Coast" of the Northern Pacific Region with lots of beaches and a paradise for sport-fishermen, surfers and sun-lovers. It also features an active volcano, the Rincón de la Vieja, and wide Prairies with lots of cattle raising, sugar cane, and rice plantations. In the 18th Century some neighbours of Rivas established their houses and cattle farms in the northern part of the Nicoya Peninsula at crossroads that connected the towns of Bagaces, Nicoya and Rivas. The place was baptized after a famous Guanacaste tree that grows in the neighbourhood.
Heredia Province
      
With the following Cantons:
Heredia
Barva
Santo Domingo
Santa Bárbara
San Rafael
San Isidro
Belén
Flores
San Pablo and
Sarapiquí.
Herdia with its capital with the same name which is located near San José and also not far from the International Airport. This province is full of surprises, high mountains, jungle, plains, volcanoes, rivers and many Suburbs of the Central Highlands. Heredia goes also all way to Nicaragua and offers an immense variety of nature activities on the way. From River Nature and Canopy Tours to Bird Watching you'll find just about everything. In Heredia one can find some industrial zones, but most of the area is dedicated to agriculture growing coffee, vegetables, sugar cane, fruits, corn, beans, dairy-farming, flower and plant exportation.
Limón Province
      
With the following Cantons:
Limón
Pococí
Siquirres
Talamanca
Matina y
Guácimo.
The capital of Limón also has the same name as the Province. It is situated along the Caribbean Sea on the Atlantic Coast with some of the most beautiful Beaches and nature attractions and parks of Costa Rica, like the Tortuguero National Park, the Bri Bri Indians Reserve with the largest indigenous tribe in the country, Banana Port and a Caribbean-style, multi-ethnic, laid-back atmosphere you won't find anywhere else. This province stretches all way from Panama to Nicaragua. The name of the Province comes from a Lemon Tree that was found in front of the governor's office which was unique of its class. The principal activities of the area are banana, pineapple, and palm-oil production as well as pejibaye, cocoa, bamboo, beans, fruits, coconuts and some cattle farming and fishing.
Puntarenas Province
     
With the following Cantons:
Puntarenas
Esparza
Buenos Aires
Montes de Oro
Osa
Aguirre
Golfito
Coto Brus
Parrita
Corredores and
Garabito.
The capital with the same name is also an important port, or harbour town for the fishing industry, and cruise-ships alike. It is also the most important province for tourism, stretching all way from the beach towns of Mal País, Montezuma, Tambor on the Nicoya Peninsula to Panama with an endless variety of large undisturbed beaches and breathtaking sunsets. But it also covers mountain areas like Monteverde and Tilarán. It has the most hotels and a variety of vacation activities like Rainforest Trams, Crocodile Tours, swimming with Dolphins, the best Surf in all Latin America, and many famous National Parks like Manuel Antonio. It also offers some of areas with the greatest Bio Diversity of the world in the Absolute Natural Reserve of Cabo Blanco, Dominical, as well as the Corcovado National Park near Drake Bay and the Piedras Blancas National Park near Golfito. Next to tourism, little more inland, there are also lots of agricultural and industrial areas, that produce vegetables, roots, corn, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, rice, palm oil, sugar, and beans and some cattle farming.
San José Province
     
With the following Cantons:
San José
Escazú
Desamparados
Puriscal
Tarrazú
Aserrí
Mora
Goicoechea
Santa Ana
Alajuelita
Vásquez de Coronado
Acosta
Tibás
Moravia
Montes de Oca
Turrubares
Dota
Curridabat
Pérez Zeledón and
León Cortés.
San José, also called the hub of the Costa Rica in the Central Valley with the Capital of the province as well as the country with the same name. It is home of an endless list of Suburbs in the Central Highlands where most of the population and businesses of Costa Rica reside. But it stretches all way to San Isidro El General touching almost the pacific coast. The province of San José offers also some of the highest mountains with high peaks like the Cerro de la Muerte and Chiripó with 3821m, and with Braulio Carillo one of the largest and least disturbed National Park, as well as wild mountain valleys like the one of the Savegre River.
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