Liberia

Liberia is the capital and largest metropolis of Guanacaste province, Costa Rica, placed 215 kilometers northwest of the countrywide capital, San Jose, in the canton with the identical call. It is the main middle of the USA's tourism enterprise. Liberia has been nicknamed la Ciudad Blanca because of the white gravel that was once used to make the metropolis’s roads and the whitewashed colonial houses which used to make up a huge a part of the city. It had a populace of 56,899 in 2013.

Modern-day Liberia becomes based as a hermitage without any prison or formal act of foundation on four September 1769. It turned into placed in a strategic area in which the roads from the cities of Rivas, Bagaces, and Nicoya met. The hermitage turned into used mainly as an area of relaxation through tourists. The vicinity's massive Guanacaste trees supplied color for vacationers and farm animals and through the years the place became referred to as Guanacaste. The settlement itself shared history with Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1812 the Cádiz Cortes created the windfall of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.