Review of Jacó

Jacó is one of the places with more development in Costa Rica.

Ever since it was created in 1980, the city of Jacó and its environs have experienced a fast growth, mainly in tourist infrastructure. Their location near San José, having 60 km of coast, with his beautiful beaches, the topographic variety, the biological reserve Carara, its river, manglares and the amiability of people, make of Garabito the preferred site of tourists and national and foreign investors. The people living in Jacó can enjoy a clean atmosphere, pure air, space opened, excellent views and calm neighbourhoods.

El name is a memory of the heroic and indómito Garabito, main cacique of the Huetar kingdom of the West, that in the beginnings of the conquest resided in the valley where the city of San Ramon is located today, whose dominions included/understood towards the West of the Virilla river.

Don Carlos Gagini in its work "the natives of Costa Rica" indicates that the word is of indigenous origin Garabee or Garabú, that means in tarahúmara "mejor".

Creation and origin

By law # 6512 of  25 of September of 1980, Garabito constituted like corner number eleven of the province of Puntarenas with an only district; the Jacó district was designated like head.