Alajuela Province
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Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country, bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east, San José to the so
Juan Santamaría statue, built in 1887
Indigenous hut
Costa Rican veterans of the 1856 campaign, taken in 1895
Poás Volcano Crater, Poás Volcano National Park with acidic lake
Arenal Volcano
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Arenal Volcano is a recently active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica around 90 km northwest of San José, in the province of Alajuela, canton of San Carlos, and district of La Fortun
Alajuela Province
…of two new positions: the Archbishop of Alajuela and the Apostolic Vicar of Limón. A seminal event in Alajuela's history was the 1968 eruption of Volcán Arenal. Residents previously referred to it as Mount Arenal. In the years before the eruption, residents reported rising groundwater temperatures and slight…
Arenal volcano
Arenal in November 2006
Arenal Volcano with Lake Arenal on the left
Arenal in 2014, viewed from the old 1968 lava flow