Tilarán
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Tilarán is a small town and a district in Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica. It is the seat of the Tilarán Canton located in the hills overlooking the west shore of Lake Arenal. It is connected by road to El Silencio, and by the 142 road down through the Cordillera de Tilarán hills to Tejona. The area between Tilaran and Tejona is one of the most important wind farms in Costa Rica and turbines are prominent on the landscape. Animal husbandry also forms an important part of the local economy.
Key facts
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- Tilarán
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- Town and district
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- Costa Rica
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- Tilarán town location in Costa Rica
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- Tilarán town location in Costa Rica
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- Tilarán
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- Tilarán
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- Wind turbine in Tilarán
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- Wind turbine in Tilarán
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- Creation
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- Country
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- Province
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- Guanacaste
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- Canton
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- Tilarán
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- 139.43
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 564
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Costa Rica
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Located in
- Tilarán Canton
- Population
- 9419
- Area
- 144.75
- Elevation
- 564
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Tilarán Canton
- Image
- Tilaran windmill.jpg
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- postal code
- 50801
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Tilarán is a small town and a district in Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica. It is the seat of the Tilarán Canton located in the hills overlooking the west shore of Lake Arenal. It is connected by road to El Silencio, and by the 142 road down through the Cordillera de Tilarán hills to Tejona. The area between Tilaran and Tejona is one of the most important wind farms in Costa Rica and turbines are prominent on the landscape. Animal husbandry also forms an important part of the local economy.
== Geography == Tilarán has an area of km² and an elevation of metres.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tilarán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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