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Cultural Identity
When you visit the areas, you will be able to enjoy certain particularities that we indicate below:
San Carlos: Enjoy the urban landscape, where tourist attractions such as the park, the church, the market with traditional food and some handicraft products such as traditional leather goods, can be found. The House of Culture of Ciudad Quesada is a space of public interest for the expression and learning of arts and different cultural and artistic manifestations. There are regularly scheduled, theater, music and other presentations. Classes in dance, painting, singing, among others, are also offered.
The main activity of the area is livestock, as it provides 65% of the milk and more than half of the meat consumed in the country, so you can enjoy landscapes that portray this activity, as well as sugar cane, pineapple, citric fruits and tubers plantations or farms.
Upala: Visit farms and landscapes where the primary activity is the cultivation of beans (one of the largest producers nationwide), corn, rice, citric fruits, pineapple, heart of palm, plantain bananas, cassava, and others.
Los Chiles: Experience a predominately agricultural economy, based on the cultivation of basic grains, vegetables and fattening cattle along with tourism mainly related to boating through the rivers of the Frío river basin linked to the Caño Negro National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest and most important wetlands in the country.
Guatuso: Enjoy the agricultural landscape, where you will find plantations of basic grains, sugar cane, coffee, pineapple, orange, plantain bananas and ornamental plants, as well as livestock and natural tourist attractions such as Rio Celeste, the labyrinth in Catira, the Malekus Indigenous Community, Cote Lake, and more.
If you visit the area you will be able to enjoy a series of natural attractions.
• San Juan River: This river is of great scenic beauty that can be navigated to enjoy the flora and fauna of the area and even to reach the border with Nicaragua and San Carlos of Nicaragua.
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Para mayor información sobre la riqueza cultural de la zona ingrese a este link: https://www.munisc.go.cr