(From our Gardening Committee Chairperson, Heather O’Connell) On Monday, May 4 the Jardineros spent the day at the Escuela de Playa Hermosa, preparing the soil, tilling, pulling weeds, and planting lawns for a garden project.  We also painted tires for a planter for the herbs we will be growing for the cafeteria. The tire planter […]

(By Heather O’Connell, Chairperson of the Gardening Committee) The Asociación de Vecinos y Empresarios de Playa Hermosa wishes to acknowledge Condovac la Costa for outstanding community service. Heading up the program of environmental sustainability is Alina Jiron Rivas, an environmental engineer with a passion for her job. Alina organizes the monthly beach clean up, the continued […]

Monitoring of Monkeys in Playa Hermosa Project: Students from the University of Costa Rica are here in Playa Hermosa! Translation: “This is to inform the community of Playa Hermosa, our students Ines Azofeifa and Mauricio Arce are running this project with the purpose of determining the composition, activity, territories and routes troops of howler monkeys (Alouwatta palliata) […]

HOW WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE: Our Blue Flag Commitee makes a difference thanks to the private donations of our business sponsors and members from our community! We keep our beach clean 7 days a week all year long so people enjoy it and keep coming back to visit. Want to be part of the solution? […]

Via Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE): MINAE Denuncias by Telephone/Denuncias MINAE por Telefono IMPORTANT NOTICE! THE SUB OFFICE OF MINAE SANTA CRUZ-CARRILLO INFORMS YOU AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MINAE NOW HAS A SYSTEM FOR ATTENTION TO DENUCIAS/COMPLAINTS VIA TELEPHONE. YOU CAN NOW PRESENT ENVIRONMENTAL DENUNCIAS/COMPLAINTS BY DIALING THE NUMBER 1192. CALL AND A […]