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Culture - Northern Plains
As well as a great variety of cultural attractions linked to:
• The Maleku Community: The Maleku indigenous village and territory, will allow you to enjoy their culture, agricultural production, tourism, and their handicraft production. The Guatuso indigenous territory has 600 inhabitants, distributed in three communities: Tonjibe, Margarita and El Sol, located on the banks of the El Sol river. These communities are accessible by gravel roads and are located a few kilometers from the center of Guatuso.
You will also get to visit and enjoy a cocoa plantation, a product that has been a part of the Maleku indigenous culture since time immemorial, as it is considered a sacred element with purifying and medicinal properties.
Architectural Material Heritage
When touring the area, you will observe a series of heritage buildings representing the particular architecture of the area, including:
House of Emilio Muñoz Marenco’s: Located in Upala, it has a vernacular wooden architecture typical of the constructions that were built in the 1940s. This house was built in 1954 and declared a Historical Architectural Heritage of Costa Rica in 2001.
The house was built in black laurel heart wood and the roof is made with galvanized iron. There are drawings or details that decorate the doors and windows , copied from handkerchiefs or other items of personal use, which constituted a very particular way of copying the models.
Source: micostaricadeantano.com/2019/08/11/casa-munoz-maren- co-upala-alajuela-1901-1950/#more-9323
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