Costa Rica
Tide Charts
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Tide Charts and Moon Phase Graph
March 2013 surfing and
fishing

Pacific
Coast Tide Station, Puntarenas
Costa Rica
9° 58.00' N, 84° 50.00' W
The tide ranks (difference between
the high
water and low tide)
are very different for both coasts of Costa
Rica, whose difference has
to
do with the marine bottom and the form in
which the tide in both ocean
basins
oscillates. The tide rank average in our
Pacific Coast is of 2,80
meters
and in the Caribbean of 0,30 meters.
If the phenomenon of El Niño appears at
the same time as
an extraordinary astronomical tide, of the
cycle of 4-5 years, the
effects
add and cause extraordinary levels of the sea
which cause floods in the
coast.
This happened in 1997 when the Isla Damas in
Quepos and other great
floods
throughout the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
occurred.
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