Beaches of Golfo Dulce & Golfito

Every named beach along the Golfo Dulce & Golfito coast, on one map. Tap a beach for how to get there, what it is good for, and Blue Flag status.

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9 beaches

Bioluminescent plankton lights up the shallows on dark nights.

A single wave can run over two minutes and more than a kilometer on the right swell.

No road reaches Playa Cativo; every arrival is by boat across the gulf.

Bottlenose dolphins live in the gulf year-round and are regularly seen just offshore.

Casa Orquideas botanical garden sits at one end of the beach and is reachable on foot or by kayak from Playa Nicuesa.

Locals describe the gulf here as lake-calm, with almost no waves most of the year.

One of the closer turtle-nesting beaches to a town, with three species documented on this stretch.

A mellow, peeling right-hander considered the most approachable of the three Matapalo breaks.

On a big southwest swell, Matapalo Point can wrap for 300 meters or more, the longest ride on the cape.