about carrillo beach

Carrillo has a superb coral reef. It's popular with swimmers and windsurfers, and it's an ideal beach for your kids.

Carrillo is not only a charming beach resort, with a wide choice of friendly and attractive hotels, restaurants, bars and discos, but, unlike other Pacific Ocean resorts, it is also a thriving fishing and farming community.

There are cowboys and cattle drives, fishing boats returning at sunset, exotic fruit harvests, specialty and organic farming, tree  nurseries and reforestation projects and many other authentic and vital Carrillo activities. There are unusual plant and animal species, ancient Indian sites, underwater caves and coastal and mountain nature trails.

Guitar, Spanish, aerobic and dancing lessons and massages are available.

Important Telephone Numbers

Clinica: Tel. 2656-0166 ~ Monday to Friday - 8 am to 4 pm
Police: Tel. 2656-0436

Carrillo Beach Map & Postcards

Artist Daria Bruni created the Carrillo Beach Map and the paintings displayed throughout this site during her stay in Samara Beach and visits throughout Costa Rica. Local shops have the map as a poster and the drawings as postcards.

About the photos on this web site

Many of the photos on this site have been sent to us in the past years by individuals who came to Carrillo Beach and loved it here.

We want to thank them all and we very much welcome you to share with us you best shoots and impressions about our village.

Videos on this site by Patrick McGoey