I almost missed this news, but thankfully I noticed this mention in my newsfeed, from Q Costa Rica. Today is Guanacaste Day!
“In 1824, the Central American Federal Republic passed the law and signed it on July 25, allowing the Guanacaste province to become part of Costa Rican territory. Nicoyans decided to be part of Costa Rica instead of Nicaragua.”
Guanacaste is the province where Tamarindo is located, which is where we have our AirBNB rental properties. One of seven provinces in Costa Rica, Guanacaste is located the northwest corner of the country. In fact, a good portion of Costa Rican Pacific coastline in Costa Rica is contained in Guanacaste.
The advantage of the Guanacaste beach regions over the southern Pacific beach regions in the province of Puntarenas is that Guanacaste has a longer dry season, whereas the southern Pacific zone is much rainier, which means more time to enjoy the beach in Guanacaste!
Guanacaste Day is celebrated as a national holiday all over the country, so businesses and government offices are closed. You can expect to see parades and parties all around the country! For a lot more detail on how this holiday is celebrated, check out this very thorough blog post by a local.
Caroline and I are very thankful that Guanacaste is part of Costa Rica, and not part of Nicaragua, because if it was part of Nicaragua, we most likely would not be invested there, and perhaps not at all in Costa Rica.
Unrelated interesting fact about Guanacaste: it generates 38.22% of the electricity of Costa Rica since 1991, all of it from renewable sources. Read more from the Costa Rica Star.
We are Scott and Caroline, 50-somethings who spent the first 20+ years of our adult lives in New York City, working traditional careers and raising 2 kids. We left full-time work in our mid-40’s for location-independent, part-time consulting projects and real estate investing, in order to create a more flexible and travel-centric lifestyle. 
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