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Aerial view of a couple looking out over the water during sunset on Manuel Antonio Beach, Manuel Antonio National Park.

At the western end of Playa Manuel Antonio you can see a semicircle of rocks at low tide. Archaeologists believe that these were arranged by pre-Columbian indigenous people to function as a turtle trap. (Turtles would swim in during high tide, but when they tried to swim out after the tide started receding, they’d be trapped by the wall.)

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