Puriscal sits 390 meters above Atenas in the same elevation band that produces Costa Rica’s most famous climate. What that difference actually changes, what the rainfall data says and where the best-weather claim really came from.

Drive west from San Jose and the price of land falls in steps. Not smoothly, and not in a straight line, but in recognizable stages that track how far you are from the capital and how good the road is when you get there. For a developer evaluating land in Costa Rica’s Central Valley, that … Read more

A plain inventory of San Antonio de Puriscal services and amenities: hospital, clinics, schools, banks and supermarkets, with distances and an honest account of the gaps.

Published figures put Puriscal about 65 km and roughly 90 minutes from San Jose. Here is the route, why the range is wide, and what the road is really like.

Central Valley land runs from about $20 to $300 per square meter. Here is what drives the spread, and why the published numbers are shakier than they look.

Clean title tells you what you own. The uso de suelo certificate tells you what you can build on it. Two different authorities, and buyers confuse them constantly.

Costa Rica taxes land at a quarter of one percent a year. The tax is small. The calendar around it is where buyers get caught.

The registered survey holds the answers to access, boundaries and buildable area. Most buyers never learn to read one.

Two parcels with the same view can sit years apart in time to first permit. That gap is the real difference in price.

The registry will tell you who owns a parcel, what is attached to it and what has been recorded against it. Here is how to read it.