El Alto
in Moravia of Provincia de San José, Costa Rica
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Tobias Bolanos International Airport (7 mi) - Juan Santamaria International Airport (12 mi)
- Guapiles Airport (24 mi)
- Rio Frio / Progreso Airport (27 mi)
- Quepos Managua Airport (36 mi)
- Arenal Airport (54 mi)
- Aerotortuguero Airport (55 mi)
- Barra del Colorado Airport (64 mi)
- Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Unesco heritage, 66 mi)
- Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís (Unesco heritage, 126 mi)
- Zoo Ave (zoo, (16 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 9.962 and -84.037 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 9° 57' 42" and W -84° 2' 13"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Colon - CRC
- Spoken languages:
- Spanish, English
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 12:31 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: America/Costa_Rica
- UTC/GMT offset: -6 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 5:20 am and 5:47 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -12.116 and 96.895 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Bantam Village - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,3 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Costa Rica.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Costa Rica. Last Update: 2024-04-26 08:02:42
Touring El Alto
El Alto in Moravia (Provincia de San José) is a town located in Costa Rica a little north-east of San Jose, the country's capital place.
Time in El Alto is now 12:31 PM (Friday). The local timezone is named America / Costa Rica with an UTC offset of -6 hours. We know of 8 airports nearby El Alto. The closest airport in Costa Rica is Tobias Bolanos International Airport in a distance of 7 mi (or 11 km), West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are two Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in Costa Rica is Area de Conservación Guanacaste in a distance of 66 mi (or 106 km), North. We collected 1 points of interest near this location. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: San Pedro, San Jose, Heredia, Cartago and Alajuela. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 25°C / 78 °F
| Morning Temperature | 19°C / 67 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 21°C / 70 °F |
| Night Temperature | 18°C / 65 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 5% |
| Air Humidity | 67% |
| Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from South-West |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Friday, 26th of April 2024
25°C (77 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 27th of April 2024
24°C (76 °F)
18°C (65 °F)
Moderate rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 28th of April 2024
25°C (78 °F)
20°C (68 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Radisson San Jose-Costa Rica
Sleep Inn Hotel Paseo Las Damas
EXE SAN JOSE CENTER
Boutique Hotel Jade
Santo Tomas
Hemingway Inn
Hotel Casa Cambranes
Boutique Hotel Casa Orquídeas
Hotel Casa Blanca 506
Casa Voltaire
Videos from this area
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Calle de la Amargura
The Calle de la Amargura ("Bitterness Street") is a four-block-long street located in San Pedro de Montes de Oca and is one of the best-known zones in San José, Costa Rica. La Calle, as it is often called, is very close to the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and other important higher education centers.
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá is one of the main sports stadiums in Costa Rica. It is located in San Juan de Tibás, San José. With a capacity of 24,000, it has one of the highest capacity stadiums in the country. The stadium is the home of Deportivo Saprissa, and was named in honour of the team's founder, Ricardo Saprissa. The stadium is nicknamed the Monster's Cave, due to the team's nickname The Monster.
Goicoechea (canton)
Goicoechea is the name of the eighth canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 31.5 km, and has a population of 124,704. The capital city of the canton is Guadalupe. The elongated canton snakes its way through the suburban areas just north of San José Centro, climbing steadily into the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) until it reaches it eastern limit between the Río Durazno (on its northern boundary) and the Río Tiribí (on the south).
Catedral District
Catedral District, the fourth "distrito" of San José Canton, Costa Rica, is one of the four administrative units that form San José downtown properly. The district receives its name because of the Cathedral and the catholic Archdiocese of San José, the only archdiocese in the country which lies between its boundaries, along with several other government buildings. The population density is the highest of the four downtown districts.
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica is the national museum of Costa Rica, located in the capital of San José. It is located at Calle 17, between Central and Second Avenue, Cuesta de Moras, in the Bellavista Fortress, a crenallated, ochre colored building opposite the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica. The fortress was built in 1917 and was originally a military barracks: the exterior walls still have many bullets lodged in them from the country's 1948 civil war.
Hospital Calderón Guardia
Hospital Calderón Guardia is a hospital in San José, Costa Rica. It is a 622-bed hospital, which is managed by the Costa Rican Social Security System. It has surgical theaters, cardiac and intensive care units and a urology department.
Ipís de Goicoechea
Ipís is the fifth district of the Goicoechea county, which is in turn the eighth (08) county of the first province of Costa Rica, San José (1). Its postal code is 10805.
Chinatown, San José
Not to be confused with the defunct Chinatown of San Jose, California Chinatown in San José, is an urban area located in the capital of Costa Rica. It is the first of its kind in a Central American city. The area began to develop as a commercial center during the last decades of the twentieth century, basically with the advent of supermarkets, shops and some restaurants whose owners are Chinese. The neighborhood was officially opened on Wednesday 5 December 2012.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of El Alto.