| Paquera | |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Pushpin Map: | Costa Rica |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Paquera district location in Costa Rica |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Paquera district location in Costa Rica |
| Coordinates: | 9.8265°N -84.9644°W |
| Map Alt: | Paquera district |
| Established Title: | Creation |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Costa Rica |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Puntarenas |
| Subdivision Type2: | Canton |
| Subdivision Name2: | Puntarenas |
| Area Total Km2: | 337.7 |
| Elevation M: | 10 |
| Population Total: | 6686 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 60105 |
Paquera is a district of the Puntarenas canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.[1] [2]
During the colonial period the entire Nicoya Peninsula was administratively part of the Partido de Nicoya (nowadays Guanacaste), it was at the beginning of the 20th century that President Alfredo González Flores signed a decree that transferred the administration of Lepanto along with Paquera and Cóbano (towns in the extreme south of the Nicoya peninsula) to the province of Puntarenas. This was due to the fact that at that time it was faster to reach Paquera by sea by boat from Puntarenas, than by the existing land routes to Nicoya. At present there is a certain political impulse in Guanacaste to administratively reincorporate the entire Nicoya peninsula into the province of Guanacaste, arguing that the Inter-American Highway allows rapid land communication with Guanacaste, in addition they argue that the word Guanacaste is internationally associated with tourism and that therefore probably the beaches of the south of the peninsula are more visited by foreign tourists.[3]
Paquera has an area of [4] and an elevation of .
For the 2011 census, Paquera had a population of inhabitants.[5]
The district is covered by the following road routes: