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Tirrases

Tirrases is a district of the Curridabat canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

Tirrases
Tirrases · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tirrases is a district of the Curridabat canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tirrases

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estadio Jorge "Cuty" Monge

    Jorge Hernán "Cuty" Monge Stadium is a football stadium in Desamparados, Costa Rica. It is the home ground of the La U Universitarios team.

    2.1 km · Costa Rican sports stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Fidélitas University

    Fidélitas University is a private university in Lourdes, Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. Fidelitas offers fifteen careers in various fields such as engineering, education, business, law and psychology.

    3.5 km · private university in Costa Rica · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Latin University of Costa Rica

    Latin University of Costa Rica, commonly called ULatina, is the largest private university in Costa Rica, with more than 16,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in Business, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences. It was founded in 1989.

    3.6 km · private university in Costa Rica · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Universidad Autónoma de Centro América

    The Autonomous University of Central America is a private university in Curridabat, Costa Rica. Founded in 1976, it was the first private university in the country.

    2.2 km · private university in Curridabat, Costa Rica · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Tirrases

Airports
Juan Santamaría (SJO), 22 km · Daniel Oduber Quirós (LIR), 182 km
  • Liberia → Tirrases
    173 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · $17–24
  • Managua → Tirrases
    346 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · $230–350
  • San Andrés → Tirrases
    392 km · quickest by air, 7h 19m · COL$314,440–485,860
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tirrases

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tirrases. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundInstead of waiting for hours for the bus at the highway, you may be better off trying to hitch-hike.
  • Get aroundHitch-hiking is far more common in rural areas than in urban areas.
  • Get aroundIf you choose to hitch-hike, Costa Ricans are generally very friendly and helpful, particularly in more rural areas where traffic on the dirt roads can be light.

From Wikivoyage: Costa Rica, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    747 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    972 km
  4. 04
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,005 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,083 km

If you know how people move in Tirrases – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tirrases

Tirrases is 7 km from San José, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Curridabatdistrict in Curridabat canton, San José province, Costa Rica1.6 km
  • San Pedrodistrict in Montes de Oca canton, San José province, Costa Rica3.8 km
  • San Francisco de Dos Ríosdistrict in San José canton, San José province, Costa Rica2.7 km
  • Granadilladistrict in Curridabat canton, San José province, Costa Rica3.5 km
  • Zapotedistrict in San José canton, San José province, Costa Rica3.5 km
  • Damasdistrict in Desamparados canton, San José province, Costa Rica1.9 km