The Brunca Region is one of six socioeconomic regions in Costa Rica. "Provinces of Costa Rica ".
''Statoids.'' (retrieved 29 Nov 2011) It has a varied landscape, ranging from the coasts to interior mountains. This region is bordered by

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

to the east, the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

to the south and west. The Brunca Region consists of the cantons of

Osa Osa or OSA may refer to: Places * Osa Peninsula, a peninsula in Costa Rica * Osa (canton), a canton in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica * Osa Conservation Area, an administrative area in Costa Rica * Osa, India, a village in Allahabad, I ...

Golfito Golfito is a district and port town of the Golfito canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, located on the southern Pacific Coast, near the border of Panama. Toponymy Literally translated as 'little gulf'. Geography Golfito has ...

Corredores Corredores is a canton in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. The head city is Ciudad Neily in Corredor district. History Corredores was created on 19 October 1973 by decree 5373. Geography Corredores has an area of km² and a mean ele ...

, Coto, and

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in the provinces of

Puntarenas Puntarenas () is a city in the Puntarenas canton of Puntarenas Province, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. As the seat of the Municipality of Puntarenas canton, it is awarded the title of city, which is made from the Puntarenas, Chacarita ...

and Perez Zeledon in the

San José Province San José () is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the central part of the country, and borders (clockwise beginning in the north) the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia, Limón, Cartago and Puntarenas. The provincial and national capital ...

. The area of the Brunca Region is 9,528 square kilometers (3,679 square miles). As of 1997, the region was estimated to have a population of 320,863 people. The name "Brunca" comes from the

Brunca people The Boruca (also known as the Brunca or the Brunka) are the indigenous people living in Costa Rica. The tribe has about 2,660 members, most living on a reservation in the Puntarenas Province in southwestern Costa Rica, a few miles away from t ...

, who are indigenous to Costa Rica.

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