Overview Puntarenas, Costa Rica, a small Pacific-coast city about 50 mi/80 km west of San Jose, is making a comeback as a port and resort town.

The octopus nursery was first found in 2013 with roughly 100 female octopuses brooding at a cold hydrothermal vent off the coast of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. But at that time, researchers said that ...

San Jose, Costa Rica to Puntarenas, Costa Rica: The theme of our trip seems to be getting stopped by the Transit Police; we've been stopped so many times I've lost count.