Introduction

Zancudo is a small community of 300 Costa Ricans, and a handful of “laid-back” foreigners.

They all flourish on fishing, and a small tourist industry.

The area was originally settled by boat builders of the long dug-outs carved from jungle trees, and by pig farmers that found plenty of feed from the bananas that would wash up onto the beach from the old banana company lands up the nearby river.

Over the years, as bananas changed to oil palm farming, the beach became a vacation spot for coffee growers from San Vito, and workers from the surrounding rice, palm, and cattle farms.

Now Playa Zancudo offer small beachfront hotels, great restaurants, jungle tours, surfing, safe swimming, and world class sportfishing and fly fishing.