# Puntarenas (CRPAS)

**UN/LOCODE:** CRPAS  
**Country:** Costa Rica  
**Water Body:** North Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 9.9833, -84.8333

Cruise passengers stepping ashore and fishing boats unloading the day's catch set the tone at Puntarenas, a narrow sandspit town on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Its quays mainly serve cruise calls, the local fishing fleet and the scheduled passenger ferries that cross the Gulf of Nicoya to Paquera and Naranjo. The site lacks dedicated container cranes, large marshalling yards and regular liner cargo calls, with around 7.9 metres alongside. Commercial box and general-cargo traffic for the region is handled some twenty minutes away at Puerto Caldera, which offers three container berths and roughly 450,000 TEU of annual capacity. For freight forwarders, Puntarenas is best understood as a passenger and ferry port, with Caldera as the working cargo gateway.

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