Archaeological Sites in Costa Rica

5 curated sites · 3000 BC – 500 AD

City/town/settlement in Costa Rica (3)

Guayabo National Monument

Guayabo National Monument is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Cartago Province, Costa Rica, on the southern slope of Turrialba Volcano. Covering 2.3 square kilometres, the…

City/town/settlement · 1500 - 500 BC

Las Mercedes Archaeological Site

Las Mercedes is a complex archaeological site on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, between the foothills of Turrialba Volcano and the alluvial plain. Covering 25 hectares, it…

City/town/settlement · 3000 - 1500 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

Petroglyphs 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…

Petroglyphs · 1 - 500 AD

Rock relief/carving in Costa Rica (1)

Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

(500 - 1000 AD) 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…

Rock relief/carving · 500 - 1000 AD

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