Cabuya CR: A slow guide to Cabuya and Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica

Turquoise fishing boats pulled up on the shore at Cabuya

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Cabuya, Costa Rica

Cabuya is a small fishing village at the southern tip of Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, where the road from Montezuma ends at Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve.

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Cabuya village, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

The island cemetery

Isla Cabuya is a small island just off Cabuya's beach that serves as the village cemetery.

Montezuma, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Montezuma Waterfall

The Montezuma waterfalls are a set of 3 falls on the Río Montezuma, just south of Montezuma village and about 20 minutes' drive from Cabuya.

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Beaches near Cabuya

Cabuya's own beach is rocky and best at high tide, when the water is calm, or at low tide for the walk to the island cemetery.

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Mal País and Santa Teresa

Mal País and Santa Teresa sit on the open Pacific just over the hills from Cabuya, with surf beaches and sunsets over the ocean.

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Photo: Turquoise fishing boats pulled up on the shore at Cabuya by micah420, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco

Cabo Blanco, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

Cabo Blanco Absolute Nature Reserve covers the forested southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula, a short drive past Cabuya, and was Costa Rica's first protected area when it was created in 1963. Visitors can walk two trails: the long Sueco trail down to Playa Cabo Blanco, or the short Danés loop.