Guaitil is a village in Diria District, Santa Cruz Canton, Guanacaste Province

Guanacaste Province

Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern part of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. To the north it borders Nicaragua. To the east is the Alajuela Province, and to the southeast is the Puntarenas Province. It is the most sparsely populated of all the...

, Costa Rica. It lies along the old route between Santa Cruz and Nicoya

Nicoya

Nicoya is a town in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province, and one of its most important tourist zones. It serves as a transport hub to Guanacaste's beaches and national parks. According to the 2000 census, the city's population was 13,334—second only to Liberia in the province...

. The town is famous for its pottery in the pre-Columbian

Pre-Columbian era

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...

Chorotega style. Potters using local clays and the same tools and techniques of their indigenous ancestors produce ceramics for local use and the tourist trade in reds, creams and blacks.

External links

• "Guaitil Map – Satellite Images of Guaitil" Maplandia
• "Chorotega Indigenous Pottery and Ceramics Tour" Discovery Travel World, photographs for Guaitil pottery