Puntarenas Province · Costa Rica
Puntarenas population
35,650people · latest figure
Puntarenas has a population of 35,650, making it the 6th largest place we list in Costa Rica. It is in Puntarenas Province.
Puntarenas holds 0.69% of Costa Rica's 5,174,789 people. San José, the largest place we list there, is 9.4 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 35,650 for Puntarenas in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Alajuela | Alajuela Province | 47,494 |
| Liberia | Guanacaste Province | 45,380 |
| Paraíso | Cartago Province | 39,702 |
| San Isidro | San José | 34,877 |
| Curridabat | San José | 34,586 |
| San Vicente | San José | 34,447 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.