Palmares

Palmares, Costa Rica, the smallest canton in Alajuela Province, is nationally famous for one thing above all others: the Fiestas Cívicas de Palmares — the largest mass public event in the country, drawing over one million visitors over two weeks every January. The rest of the year, it is a warm, traditional, coffee-growing community in the western Central Valley with a deep sense of civic pride and a friendly, unhurried pace of life.

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