San José in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🦥

Both two-toed and three-toed sloths live here, and they descend from the tree about once a week.

🌿

Costa Rica holds something close to five per cent of the world's species on a tiny fraction of its land.

🐸

The red-eyed tree frog is the postcard one. The poison dart frogs are smaller and considerably more dangerous.

☕

Coffee money built the National Theatre in the 1890s, paid for by a tax the growers voted on themselves.

🌋

Poás and Irazú are both within an hour or two, and Poás has one of the largest active craters anywhere.

San José at a glance

Country

Costa Rica

Coordinates

9.93° N, 84.09° W

First played

12 July 2026

Also accepted

San Jose

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from San José.