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Playas del Coco
A beach town on the Gulf of Papagayo.
- Papagayo project
- 1972
- Record mahi-mahi
- 1976
- Tides
- Two highs, two lows a day
Then
- 1972
Costa Rica begins a big tourism project on the gulf.
- 1976
A world-record 87-pound mahi-mahi is caught in the gulf.
- 1990s
Visitors and new residents make the town grow fast.
Now
The tide station is in Bahía Culebra, in the gulf's south.
On the water
From NOAA's predictions for Bahia de Culebra over the next 365 days. Heights are in feet above mean lower low water (MLLW).
- Pattern
- Two highs and two lows a day, close in size
- Typical daily range
- 7.9 ft
- Biggest swing
- 11.5 ft on Sep 3
- Smallest swing
- 4.3 ft on Apr 1
- Highest high
- 10.6 ft, Sep 3 at 5:13 AM
- Lowest low
- −1.2 ft, Feb 23 at 10:22 AM