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Description: History, climate and attractions of Alajuela Province, Costa Rica.
Many associate Alajuela with the warm and sunny climate that characterizes the city of the same name and the various towns in the western end of the Central Valley that also belong to this large and populous province. However, the vast majority of the provincial territory lies on the other side of the volcanic cordilleras, extending north to the Nicaraguan border. This sprawling area in the northern lowlands is under the influence of weather conditions coming in off the Caribbean Sea and was formerly covered in extensive tracts of majestic rain forest. Recent agricultural colonization of the northern frontier has severely altered the natural landscape (witness the paucity of national parks in the region), and very likely has affected the climate to some degree, resulting in hotter and slightly drier conditions, even though this is still an area of high annual rainfall (local inhabitants claim it rains 13 months out of the year). Even wetter, and much cooler, conditions exist along the Caribbean-facing slopes of the cordilleras, which reach a height of 2,704 meters above sea level on the summit of Poás Volcano.
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| Page title: | Alajuela, Costa Rica |
| Keywords: | Alajuela Costa Rica history climate National Parks Poas Arenal Caño Negro Juan Castro Blanco Zarcero Sarchi La Virgen del Socorro Fraijanes Juan Santamaria |
| Description: | History, climate and attractions of Alajuela Province, Costa Rica |
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| Date | Creation Date: 15-oct-1998 Expiration Date: 14-oct-2016 |