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Central America, Puntarenas Province

Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Coffee-port spit

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Coffee-boom era: German and English imports, early Costa Rican pharmacy..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1840-1900

Historical inference; no documented digs found.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Estuary currents
heat.

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