Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Costa Rica
Detourmap lists 46 places in Costa Rica, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (44). Best known: Arenal Volcano. 18 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 46
- Oldest here
- Turrialba Volcano National Park 1955
- Little known
- 18 of 46
- Most from
- 20th century
Nature & landscapes in Costa Rica 44
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1.Coco Island
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
Island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica
Archaeological & historic sites in Costa Rica 2
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1.Stone spheres of Costa Rica
Archaeological · Renowned
Assortment of over three hundred precolumbian petrospheres in Costa Rica
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Costa Rica?
Arenal Volcano. Active stratovolcano in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Costa Rica?
46: 44 nature & landscapes and 2 archaeological & historic sites. 18 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Costa Rica?
Turrialba Volcano National Park, dated to 1955. 10 of the 46 places here carry a founding date at all.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.