See also:

• PUNTARENAS, or PUNTA ARENAS

PUNTARENAS, or PUNTA ARENAS  , a seaport and See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DISTRICT

district (comarca) of See also:

• PUNTARENAS, or PUNTA ARENAS

Puntarenas, See also:

• COSTA, GIOVANNI (1826–1903)
• COSTA, LORENZO (146o-r535)
• COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS (1808-1884)

Costa Rica; on the Gulf of Nicoya, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and at the western See also:

• TERMINUS

terminus of the interoceanic railway from See also:

• LIMON, or PORT LIMON

Limon . Pop . (1904), 3569 . Puntarenas is the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour of Costa Rica on the Pacific, and a See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for the See also:

• UNITED

United States liners which ply between See also:

• SAN

San Francisco and See also:

• PANAMA

Panama . It has an See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier and ample warehouse See also:

• ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation for its large and growing export See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee and bananas . The district of Puntarenas comprises the entire littoral from Burica Point to the Rio de See also:

• LAS

las Lajas, an affluent of the Gulf of Nicoya .