Tamarindo, Costa Rica Entry Points
Numerous airlines provide links to Costa Rica from many international cities. It is also possible to arrive at land border crossings with Nicaragua and Panama. Most tourists arrive by air at San Jose, the national capital in the Central Valley, or at Liberia, a new destination in the northwest province of Guanacaste. Its proximity to the northern Pacific Ocean beaches has made the Liberia connection very popular with tourists from North America. Several scheduled and charter airlines provide flights each day from departure cities in the USA and Canada. If you are looking for flights on the internet, the 3-letter international airport code for Liberia is “LIR” and for San Jose it is “SJO”.