Guaitil is a village in Diriá District, Santa Cruz Canton,

Guanacaste Province Guanacaste () is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern region of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Alajuela Province to the east, and Puntarenas Province to the southeast. I ...

, Costa Rica. It lies along the old route between Santa Cruz and

Nicoya Nicoya is a Districts of Costa Rica, district and head city of the Nicoya (canton), Nicoya canton, in the Guanacaste Province, Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, located on the Nicoya Peninsula. It is one of the country's most important tourism, ...

.Salguero, Miguel (2007) ''Caminos y veredas de Costa Rica: Pueblos y geografías'' EUNED, Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José, Costa Rica
page 241
The town is famous for its pottery in the

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Chorotega style.Firestone, Matthew D.; Miranda, Carolina A. and Soriano, César G. (2010) ''Costa Rica'' (9th edition) Lonely Planet, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, page 276, Potters using local clays and the same tools and techniques of their indigenous ancestors produce ceramics for local use and the tourist trade in reds, creams and blacks.

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External links

"Guaitil Map – Satellite Images of Guaitil"
Maplandia

Discovery Travel World, photographs for Guaitil pottery Populated places in Guanacaste Province {{CostaRica-geo-stub