peninsula de osa dominical

Welcome to the hub of the Osa, the Cradle of Western Civilization. Founded before the annals of recorded history in the early nineteenth century, the original pioneer dwelling grew tentatively in the early years of the steam engine, losing a few during the period of the American Civil War to malaria, then growing again by the time Bell and Watson made the telephone possible. It was located on the present day bay of Pueblo Viejo, whence mangrove and sunset dolphin watching tours depart daily in modern times, and in the late eighteen hundreds it was identified on international nautical charts as Santo Domingo. The original cemetary has not quite disintegrated into the jungle, though it is well on its way. But when the tsunami hit, an event recorded outside of the oral tradition in a minuscule number of documents, the town moved to higher ground. The new town center was located across the street from the present day Choza del Manglar. In 1910 Puerto Jiménez renamed itself in honor of the visiting President of the Republic, an honor heretofore never bestowed on the district. The town center was moved to its present location in the fifties. During its existence it has seen its economic focus shift from bush and fish to subsistence agriculture to cattle to beans to bananas to gold to wood to rice, and finally to current regional economic mainstay, tourism. While traditional tourism is a mature industry in Puerto Jimenez, Drake, and at sophisticated remote ecolodges, an enormous contribution to the economy comes from expatriate residents from the investment in real estate and development. Nevertheless, there remains a strong agricultural industry in the cattle, rice, and African palm sectors. The Osa is one of the rare places in the world with the climate and topography, coincidentally to support three annual harvests of rice, already a cash crop..