About Playa Zancudo

Zancudo is a small community of 300 Costa Ricans, and a handful of “laid-back” foreigners. We all flourish on fishing, and a small tourist industry. The area was originally settled by boat builders of the long dug-outs carved from jungle trees, and by pig farmers that found plenty of feed from the bananas that would wash up onto the beach from the old banana company lands up the nearby river.

Over the years, as bananas changed to oil palm farming, the beach became a vacation spot for coffee growers from San Vito, and workers from the surrounding rice, palm, and cattle farms.

Now Playa Zancudo offer small beachfront hotels, great restaurants, jungle tours, surfing, safe swimming, good sportfishing, and fly fishing. Arriving here in 1979 from British Columbia, we fell in love with this place and the people. We established Cabinas Los Cocos in 1990, to provide a place for the travelers who wanted to discover a Costa Rican hideaway.

This unique and undeveloped area is located far south, on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. We are about 6 miles by boat from Golfito, and 8 miles by boat from Puerto Jimenez.

Most of our guests fly into Golfito, to arrive here in our taxi boat, and others drive in rental cars. The bus is another way to arrive, or even a private taxi right to your cabin door. Many of our guests come here to relax after visiting the Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula, and we pick them up in Puerto Jimenez in our taxi boat. We can help you choose the most comfortable arrival for you trip.

All our guests love this quiet and safe beach and our beachfront accommodations, and often want to extend their visit. We enjoy many return guests, who come back for longer stays, having found the quiet beach retreat that they have dreamed of. 

Our cabins are right on the beach, facing westerly, with a sunset view over the Osa Peninsula. Many come to read in the hammocks overlooking the ocean, or walk for hours along the long empty beach that stretches 12 miles from the point of the Zancudo Peninsula, south to Pavones, home of the longest left breaking wave. Many others come for the plentiful water sports.