Punta Islita

{{Short description|Resort town in Costa Rica}}

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Punta Islita is a resort town in the Nandayure Canton, Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. The Punta Islita Airport is located in the nearby town of Corozalito.

The village has houses and murals with Naive paintings and mosaics. The town is framed by cliffs, creating a halfmoon bay.{{cite web |title=Playa Bejuco, Islita and Camaronal |url=https://nicoyapeninsula.com/coyote/islita.php |website=Nicoya Peninsula |accessdate=June 4, 2018}} It is named after the small area of land that becomes an island at high tide.{{cite book |title=Fodor's Costa Rica 2016 |date=2016 |publisher=Fodor's Travel Guides |isbn=1101878940}}

In December 2017, ten American tourists and two pilots were killed in a plane crash in Punta Islita.{{cite news |title=At least 10 tourists and two pilots killed as plane crashes in Costa Rica |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/31/at-least-10-tourists-and-two-pilots-killed-as-plane-crashes-in-costa-rica |accessdate=June 4, 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=December 31, 2017}}