Playa Negra, Costa Rica

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Playa Negra

Guanacaste Province · Costa Rica

Photo: François Bianco / Wikimedia Commons

The short version, from the cited sources

Playa Negra is a beach in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. It is south of Tamarindo, San José de Pinilla, Avellanas and north of Marbella, Lagarto, Venado, and Junquillal.

Country
Costa Rica (CR)
Region
North America
Surface
Sand
Administrative area
Guanacaste Province
Timezone
America/Costa_Rica
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2016-01-20

Names in the record

Playa Negra

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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  • Water and swimming character
  • Access and accessibility
  • Facilities and lifeguards
  • Seasonality and crowd pattern
  • Current hazards and restrictions
  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

10.19515, -85.83061

The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.

Direct provenance

Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.

    ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  3. Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.

    CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  4. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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