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Lake Arenal

540 m1,772 ft
Area
84 km²
Max depth
55 m
Tonight
22°CCloudy · Wind 25 km/h NE

Lake Arenal is a lake at 540 m above sea level in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, 84 km² in area and 29.3 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
540 m
Length
29.3 km
Shoreline
178.6 km
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3D map

Lake Arenal 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Lake Arenal topographic map

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Arenal elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Lake

Lake Arenal in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
178.6 km
Weather

Lake Arenal weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 22°C (72°F) · 0.4 mm · Wind 25 km/h NE

Lake Arenal forecast for about 540 m.

  • Tonight22°0.4 mm25 km/h NE
  • Sat22°27°0.9 mm30 km/h NE
  • Sun22°27°–28 km/h NE
  • Mon22°27°0.2 mm25 km/h NE
  • Tue22°28°1.6 mm15 km/h NE
  • Wed22°27°0.3 mm18 km/h NE
  • Thu22°28°0.2 mm17 km/h NE
  • Fri22°27°1.4 mm17 km/h NE
  • Sat21°25°5.0 mm21 km/h NE
  • Sun21°24°8.5 mm22 km/h NE

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Lake Arenal

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Arenal, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest campsite

    Wildcamping

    2.2 km S · +1 more within 2.7 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest parking

    3.7 km E

    +2 more within 7.8 km

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 5
PlaceDistance
WildcampingCampsite2.2 km S
Campamento La TronadoraCampsite2.7 km SSE
Parking3.7 km E
Parking4.4 km ENE
Parking7.8 km SSW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
74.2%
Moderate, 15–30°
24.3%
Steep, 30–45°
1.5%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
1.5% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
1,030 m low point 199 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 59.5%Grassland 26.4%Water 13.5%Built-up 0.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 1,319 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Tezpi Dancer81
  • Mantled Howler Monkey69
  • Keel-billed Toucan63
  • Great-tailed Grackle58
  • White-throated Magpie-Jay53
  • Crested Guan52
Where it sits

Where Lake Arenal sits

Region
Costa Rica14North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
Sources

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Panorama
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia