Archaeological Sites in Costa Rica

5 curated sites · 1500 BC – 500 AD

City/town/settlement in Costa Rica (3)

Guayabo National Monument

Guayabo National Monument (Spanish: Monumento Nacional Guayabo), is an archaeological site near the city of Turrialba, within the Central Conservation Area in the Cartago…

City/town/settlement · 1500 - 500 BC

Las Mercedes Archaeological Site

Las Mercedes is a complex archaeological site located on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica between the foothills of Turrialba Volcano and the alluvial plain. The site contains a…

City/town/settlement · 1500 - 500 BC

Rivas District

A Chiriqui Period (AD 750-1500) archaeological site in the Perez Zeledon canton, San Jose province, Costa Rica, discovered in the 1980s by Robert Drolet. Excavations began in 1992…

City/town/settlement · 500 - 1000 AD

Rock art in Costa Rica (1)

El Pedregal Archaeological Site

El Pedregal is a rock art site in northwest Costa Rica, 20 km from the Nicaraguan border in the Cordillera de Guanacaste mountains. The site was first scientifically documented in…

Rock art · 500 BC - 1 AD

Sculptured stone in Costa Rica (1)

Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres found primarily on the Diquís Delta and Isla del Caño. Locally known as bolas de piedra (stone balls),…

Sculptured stone · 500 - 1000 AD

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