Uvita is a very special town on the Southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, which enjoys a multicultural atmosphere thanks to the nice mixture of locals and foreigners from all over the world. Uvita is famous for the migration of humpback whales to its warm and calm waters from December to March and from late July to early November each year. Uvita is also home to Ballena Marine National Park, named after the whales that migrate here, where dolphin populations (bottlenose, spinner, and spotted dolphins) are found all year round.
The Ballena Marine National Park protects more than 5,300 hectares of ocean and 9 miles of coastline. The park also serves as a nesting site for the Olive Ridley sea turtle. The beaches of the park are protected from dangerous currents by a network of rocky reefs and islets. There are four entrances to the park: Punta Uvita, Colonia (also known as Shaman), Ballena, and Piñuelas Beaches. A sandbar resembling a giant whale’s tail- if you look at it from a high point or from the air, forms at low tide in Punta Uvita Beach. Visitors can walk through it, swim in its quiet, warm waters while seeing the magnificent range of mountains that soars high above the shore.
Uvita has experienced a bubbling development in the last couple of years. Nowadays the town has two well-supplied supermarkets, two drugstores, doctor and dentist offices, beauty parlours, an indoor soccer field and sports center, and Farmers’ Market every Saturday morning.
In a nutshell, Uvita is a great place to visit and to live with its amazing natural scenery and natural resources, its multicultural community, accommodations and tours for all tastes and budgets, conveniently close to great restaurants and activity spots.