The small rasta town on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast is about to change forever.  US and Costa Rican investors recently announced their plans to build a $40 million 389-slip marina.  This comes weeks after the announcement of new ports in Limon and Moin, both on the Caribbean coast.

The marina will include a shopping center, arts and craft vendors, yacht maintenance and repair areas, offices, storage areas, and two breakwaters. The plans have been submitted to the Inter-Institutional Commission for Marinas and Tourists Docks (CIMAT) and are currently being studied.  

The marina will provide an estimated 2000 indirect and direct jobs to the area. 

Presently there are 22 marina plans submitted to the government and it is a race to see which will be approved first.  There is only one legally operating marina in Costa Rica which is Los Suenos, just south of Jaco, on the Pacific side.

A worry for many people is how this will change the quaint coastal town. 

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Filed under: Costa Rica News on October 12th, 2007