Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for Costa Rica.

115,227 places in Costa Rica, searchable with one GET request. From San José to both coasts, covering the eco-tourism corridors travel apps care about.

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One request away.

Search "soda" near San José (9.9281, -84.0907) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=soda" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=9.9281" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=-84.0907" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: San José 9.9281, -84.0907 · Liberia 10.6346, -85.4407

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across Costa Rica.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real Costa Rica places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

Costa Rica coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover Costa Rica?

Yes. 115,227 places in Costa Rica are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.

Where does the Costa Rica place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.

Can I add my own places in Costa Rica?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

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Spotlights are editorial deep dives, not the edge of coverage. The API is global wherever the current Overture release has Places data; the coverage page has the full inventory.