Tilarán is a small town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the 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

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. It is the seat of the Tilarán Canton

Tilarán Canton

Tilarán is the eighth canton in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 638.39 km², and has a population of 19,045. Its capital city is also called Tilarán....

 located in the hills overlooking the west shore of Lake Arenal

Lake Arenal

Lake Arenal is an artificial lake in Costa Rica, located in the northern highlands of the country. It was enlarged to its present size as a part of a 1979 hydroelectric project by the Costa Rican government to provide electricity to the country.- Geography :...

. It is connected by road to El Silencio

El Silencio, Costa Rica

El Silencio is a village and nature park in the Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. It is located in the hills overlooking the west shore of Lake Arenal....

, and via the 142 road down through the Cordillera de Tilarán hills to Tejona

Tejona

Tejona is a village in the Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. It is located on Lake Arenal and has a hydroelectric power station. Hotel Tilawa and skateboarding park as well as the Tilawa Viento Surf Center and Arenal Botanical Gardens are located nearby...

.The area between Tilaran and Tejona is one of the most important wind farms in Costa Rica and turbines are prominent on the landscape. Animal husbandry also forms an important part of the local economy.
The main religion is Roman Catholicism and the town lies at the center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tilarán

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tilarán

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tilarán is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.-Ordinaries:*Román Arrieta Villalobos *Héctor Morera Vega - Bishop Emeritus...

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Notable people

• Leonidas Flores
  Leonidas Flores
  Leonidas Flores Reyes is a retired Costa Rican professional footballer. He played for A.D. Municipal Puntarenas, Deportivo Saprissa, A.D. Guanacaste and AD San Carlos.-Club career:...
  
  -retired footballer

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