Festival Folclorico De Guanacaste a Mi Lindo Sarapiqui

A folkloric dance exchange linking Guanacaste's marimba and punto guanacasteco traditions to Sarapiqui, a rainforest canton in Heredia province with its own distinct farming and river culture. Tied to the ExpressArte Costa Rica folkloric network and performed by companies such as Grupo Proyeccion Folclorica Cafeto y Cana, it carries northwestern dance styles to an audience whose everyday cultural reference points sit far from the cattle country of Guanacaste.

Costa Rica's folkloric festival circuit includes a touring program called De Guanacaste a mi Lindo Sarapiqui, which carries Guanacaste's Pacific-coast dance traditions inland to Sarapiqui, a lowland canton in Heredia province better known for rainforest, river tourism and pineapple and heart-of-palm farming than for the marimba-and-sabanero culture of the dry northwest.