Costa Rica · Costa Rica
Playas del Coco
A beach town on the Gulf of Papagayo.
- Papagayo project
- 1972
- Record mahi-mahi
- 1976
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.