Send Flowers to Guápiles, Costa Rica

Guápiles is the first town you reach on the Caribbean side after Route 32 descends through the cloud forest of Braulio Carrillo National Park. It is the head of the canton of Pococí, in Limón province, and a practical, hard-working place that serves the surrounding farms.

The plains around Guápiles produce bananas, pineapples and ornamental plants for export, and many families here work in agriculture, transport or commerce. Travellers know the area mainly as the road access towards the boat docks for Tortuguero. People who send flowers to Guápiles are usually relatives in San José or abroad marking a birthday, a birth, Mother's Day in August or a bereavement. Addresses follow the Costa Rican system of landmarks and distances, so include those, the barrio and a phone number. Orders before 11:00 am local time are delivered the same day, Monday to Saturday; later ones the next day, and never on Sundays. The climate is hot and rainy throughout the year, which suits tropical foliage and sturdy blooms.

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