Sentences with phrase «pacific coast area»

For those around the Pacific Coast area, is the palm - fringed coast of the Nicoya Peninsula with its soft sand beaches and turquoise waters.

Charter flights are inexpensive and can be arranged to land in Jaco, Esterrilos, Quepos and at other airstrips in the Central Pacific Coast area.

In that same northern Pacific Coast area, there have been reports of kitesurfers in Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste.

Not exact matches

The city, which is linked by highway to the country's interior, is a vital hub for traffickers moving up and down Mexico's Pacific coast and links them to the state's expansive opium and marijuana cultivation areas.

Rings of slum housing have sprung up around many of Mexico's beach resorts, areas where criminal groups find fertile ground to recruit, set up drug sales to tourists and locals, and demand extortion payments from local businesses, as they have done in the Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo.

This is the area along the Pacific coast from San Diego to Santa Barbara.

Emerald Cove Instant Pacific Sea Salad is a carefully selected blend of six sea vegetables harvested from remote areas along Japan's rocky coast.

A restaurant veteran and founder of The Culinary Edge, Starbird Co-Founder Aaron Noveshen is also the co-founder of Pacific Catch, a seven - unit Bay Area - based and private equity - funded brand known for its West Coast and Pacific - inspired seafood.

Our small taste of the Golden State has inspired a future family road trip; we definitely want to explore San Francisco and the nearby areas of Sunnyvale, CA, and then take that legendary drive down the Pacific Coast Highway.

To protect the turtles, NOAA Fisheries created the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area off the coast of Southern California.

«Seventeen is closed, Skyline is closed, nine is closed, 152 is closed,» my mom tells me at a restaurant in San Jose, Calif., rattling off highways between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific coast, where I'm scheduled to drive the next morning.

Now scientists are calling attention to a dangerous area on the opposite side of the Ring of Fire, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault that runs parallel to the Pacific coast of North America, from northern California to Vancouver Island.

The study finds that 12 % of the U.S. coastline is particularly vulnerable to contamination, including parts of the northern Gulf Coast, the Pacific Northwest, and the northern Atlantic coast, where high rates of seepage overlap areas of human developCoast, the Pacific Northwest, and the northern Atlantic coast, where high rates of seepage overlap areas of human developcoast, where high rates of seepage overlap areas of human development.

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Cerro Hoya National Park is an isolated tropical forest remnant (325 square kilometers, 125 square miles) on Panama's Pacific coast, whereas Darién National Park is Panama's most extensive park (5,790 square kilometers, 2235 square miles) in the area between Panama and Colombia, the only gap in the Pan-American highway from Alaska to Chile.

The scenarios were also tailored to produce regional projections in areas including the U.S. Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific coasts, Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Pacific island territories.

The research developed computer models of blue whale habitat off the U.S. West Coast and in the eastern tropical Pacific, including upwelling and underwater topography that affects areas of krill concentration.

Over the past couple of decades, authorities fear, lingcod stocks in some areas along the Pacific coast have been dangerously depleted by overfishing.

None exist in the Pacific Northwest, much of the East Coast and much of the South, except for the Gulf Coast area.

No one disputes that a lot of oil lies untapped under the rocky floors of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the U.S. coasts, in areas where Congress has banned drilling since 1982.

During El Niño, the area of tropical Pacific convection and its associated Hadley circulation expand eastward from the western Pacific, sometimes extending to the west coast of South America.

The Pacific Coast is a beautiful area to both drive along and explore, the coastline is stunning with rain forests lining huge sandy beaches which for the most part are relatively empty.

And I live on the Oregon Coast, which is a major tourist area and Highway 101 is the major highway out here that runs along the Pacific Ocean and right through the center of our little town.

Manuel Antonia National Park — Listed by Forbes as one of the world's 12 most beautiful national parks, the protected coastal rainforest area of Manuel Antonio on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast is a favorite destination on Caravan's Costa Rica eco tour.

In the town of Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific coast, the 12 cliff - top bungalows at Villas Carrizalillo overlook a cove with the area's prettiest beach, Playa Carrizalillo.

Pacific Coast Highway, or PCH, stretches up the San Diego coastline and passes through some of the area's most beautiful beach towns like Del Mar, Leucadia and Encinitas.

You continue through the Sierra Nevada mountain ranch until you reach the Pacific coast and the San Francisco Bay area.

The Arenas del Mar Beach & Nature Resort does a great job of combining the best of all worlds for visitor to the Quepos area of Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Located on the Southern Pacific coast's Osa Peninsula, Copa de Arbol is perfectly situated between Drake Bay and the Corcovado National Park in an area called «caletas» or small coves.

This region doesn't have the extreme heat of other areas like the Gulf of California in the summer, or the windy, rough seas of any open Pacific coast.

Snowy plovers that nest at inland sites are not considered part of the Pacific coast population, although they may migrate to coastal areas during winter months.

Orange County is the sixth most populous area in the US — 42 miles of coastline, endless summer and a close proximity to one of America's most exciting cities (L.A. is just up the Pacific Coast Highway, of course) will do that for a place.

Northwest: In the Pacific costal areas of Baja California winter begins with the first rain storm that works its way down the Pacific coast of the United States.

Northwest: Spring comes to the Pacific coastal areas slowly, as Pacific winter storms lose their punch further and further to the north along the California coast.

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park has two environmental hike - in camping areas, named by Sunset magazine as one of the «four best places to pitch a tent on the Pacific Coast.»

Because of the fog, another lighthouse was built closer to the Pacific Ocean shore line, in the area adjoining Cabrillo National Monument now occupied by a U.S. Coast Guard Station.

In the town of Puerto Escondido, on the Pacific coast, the 12 cliff - top bungalows overlook a cove with the area's prettiest beach, Playa... Read More

Pacific Grove Marine Gardens State Marine Conservation Area is one of four small marine protected areas located near the cities of Monterey and Pacific Grove, at the southern end of Monterey Bay on California's central coast.

Many wineries and vineyards are nearby, as well as the Russian River resort area, the Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean, Jack London State Historic Park, and the redwood trees of Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve.

San Miguel Island lies in an area of water that overlaps two currents - a cold current moving down the Pacific coast from Alaska and a warm current moving up the Pacific coast from Mexico.

Traditionally, the Santa Barbara Channel has been one of the richest fishing areas of the Pacific coast.

The Tepic International Airport (TPQ) is located just 1 hour east of the resort coastal area of San Blas in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico's Pacific Coast's oldest sea port.

The trail is not well marked in some areas, but it's impossible to get lost since the Pacific Coast Highway borders you to the east.

The Riviera Nayarit fishing area is located on Mexico's open, central Pacific coast at about latitude 20 degrees north, well into the tropics, but still subject to some winter influence and seasonality in the fishery.

Manuel Antonio National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, is a small National Park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and 132 km (82 mi) from the national capital of San José.

The upper level common area is open and airy with large picture windows and sliders that look out over the gorgeous Pacific coast and an open concept living / dining / kitchen area that provides guests with the ideal convivial atmosphere.

The Galapagos are an area of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean and are 500 miles from the mainland coast of Ecuador mainland.

Hotel La Mariposa is located in the beautiful small town of Manuel Antonio in the Costa Rica's Central Pacific Coast, this area is one of the country top destinations, recently named by the Forbes Magazine as one of the most beautiful National Park in the world.

Casa Roland's Villas Lirio is located in the Quepos Manuel Antonio area on the Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica Our secluded hotel is decorated with fine furnishings and unique art created by local artists...

Located on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Corcovado National Park represents the largest remaining tract of lowland forest on the Pacific Coast of Central America, making it one of the most important protected areas in all of Central America.