Costa Ballena Guide, Osa, Costa Rica Free Digital Magazine and Travel Guide

  Costa Ballena is where the forest meets the South Pacific Ocean in the Osa Canton. It comprises the area from the Barú River, crossing the bridge at Dominical to the mouth of the Térraba River in Coronado.

The area includes the following small towns: Dominical, Dominicalito, Hermosa Beach, San Josecito, Uvita, Bahía, Ballena, Ojochal, and Coronado.

Visit Uvita Beach at  Marino Ballena National Park, the famous Whale’s Tail, with a length of about 2296 feet and a width of 820 feet; it is the world’s third-largest sandbank. During the low tide, you can walk to its very end.

Discover the wonders of Costa Ballena, and keep browsing to learn all you need to know about Costa Rica vacations in the South Pacific Region. 

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Ballena Tales is a digital and interactive magazine and travel guide covering Costa Ballena in the Osa Canton and the South Pacific region of Costa Rica. On this site, you will find helpful information such as what to do, services, experiences, natural attractions, wildlife, tide chartseventsrestaurants, and hotels in Costa Ballena, Osa, and the South Pacific of Costa Rica.

Our editorial priority is to satisfy our readers by publishing attractive content and highlighting the value of our advertisers' brands. The magazine, available in digital and print formats, highlights the local community. We collaborate free of charge with positive community initiatives and environmental organizations. It also includes interviews with pioneers, writers, and artists from the South Pacific region of Costa Rica.

The magazine goes beyond traditional print publications. Each issue, whether print or digital, is part of a robust digital ecosystem. Issues are accessible online, advertorials are featured on our blog, and brands are listed in the business directory on our website. The ads also include links to the advertising companies' websites and social media profiles.

The digital version has a worldwide reach with tens of thousands of opens. The print edition has a dedicated readership of more than 8,000 readers in the South Pacific Costa Ballena region. According to a study conducted in hotels, restaurants, pharmacies, offices, rental houses, supermarkets, and other places, the average readership for the print version was 2.3 local readers and 18 visitors per issue, totaling approximately 142,000 readers. This result corresponds to the printing of seven thousand copies per year.

Saturday Night Latin Dance Party

Restaurant, Bar & Cabinas Atypical French Cuisine Open from Friday to Tuesday 11 am to 9:30 pm Calle Soluna Ojochal, Costa Rica (506) 2786 5052 / 8719 5130 cocolindo@ymail.com   Every second Saturday at 7 […]

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Latin Dance Night

Restaurant, Bar & Cabinas Atypical French Cuisine Open from Friday to Tuesday 11 am to 9:30 pm Calle Soluna Ojochal, Costa Rica (506) 2786 5052 / 8719 5130 cocolindo@ymail.com   Tuesdays at 8 pm we […]

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Coco Lindo

Restaurant, Bar & Cabinas Atypical French Cuisine Open from Friday to Tuesday 11 am to 9:30 pm Calle Soluna Ojochal, Costa Rica (506) 2786 5052 / 8719 5130 cocolindo@ymail.com   Aurelie & Alexandre invite you […]

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An Eight Colones Pair of Pants

Don Regulo Gonzales is a 70-year-old-man; at the age of 14, he came from Esparza to Platanillo.  While going to school, he met his future wife Judith Solis C.  Years later they got married, and […]

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Iguana Verde Ferreteria

Hardware store (506) 2743 8929 1 km East Banco CR Uvita, Costa Rica       Opening Hours Monday to Friday – 6 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturdays – 6 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sundays […]

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Piccola Italia Presents Full Moon Party!

Friday, November 30th, 2012 Pizzeria Piccola Italia Restaurant, Deli and Bar Mediterranean Fusion Cuisine Pizza, homemade pasta, Italian Deli Tuesday to Sunday 12 a.m. – 12 p.m. 300 m Norte Servicentro Bahia (km 161) Uvita, […]

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Gourmet Festival

On January, 26th, 2013 fourteen restaurants of Ojochal, Osa, Costa Rica came together for an unforgettable festival in one location, the Boca Coronado Restaurant, each one featuring their best dishes. The mission was to put […]

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Pelicans

What other animals walk, swim, and fly? Pelicans are famous for their enormous beak; it has a throat poach they use to scoop up the fish.  The pelicans feed on that fish by immediately tipping […]

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President of ADI Ojochal

Last September, Ana Herrera was re-elected as president of the Association for the Development of Ojochal. She kept positioned thanks to her dedicated work for the AMO group, the Association of Women of Ojochal. Her […]

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Tropical Biodiversity Institute

César Barrio Amorós was born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied anthropology and music; however, his true passions are herpetology, the tropics, and the discovery of new species. In 1995, he traveled with his backpack to […]

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How to get in shape for surfing

Surfing is a sport for the whole body, using different parts in combination and in sequence.  You should train for it in the same way, creating a circuit. Flexibility is achieved through stretching exercises. Paddling […]

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The Spheres (2011)

The spheres are perfectly round, mysterious and have their abode in the South Pacific of Costa Rica. The spheres are a pre-Columbian Indian heritage that arouses passions, tall tales and even monumental astronomical conjectures

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Borucan women in Guatemala

Susan Atkinson, from the Pacific Edge Eco Lodge, took three Boruca ladies to Guatemala to meet their homologues.  From Guatemala City, they traveled to Chichicastenango, where every Thursday morning the largest native market in Central […]

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