Coronado (approx. 60,000 inhabitants) is located just 10 kilometers northeast of the center of San José on the outskirts of the Braulio Carrillo nature reserve. Living in Coronado provides you with all the advantages of a clean natural area, and at the same time it gives you the opportunity to enjoy the cultural activities of the capital city.

Green Coronado is a lively rural city with an active community life. It is the seat of numerous respected institutions, such as the Interamerican Institute for Agriculture (IICA), the Center for Central American Social Studies (ICAES), the Costa Rican Olympic Committee, and the world-famous snake research center of the University of Costa Rica, the Instituto Clodomiro Picado. Here you can also find everything for your day-to-day needs: modern supermarkets, a sunday market, doctors, banks, traditional sodas, and even pizzerias and American-style restaurants. A large gothic cathedral towers over Coronado.

All of our guest families live near the school in Coronado. They are carefully chosen, and they embody the best traditional Latin American values – an ideal environment for learning Spanish and getting an authentic picture of life and culture in Middle America.


New Coffee Shops In Coronado

There are two new coffee shops in Coronado and they have proven to be very popular with our students. Their names are: Kaffa and Honey.

Kaffa is located 100 meters west and 50 meters south of the northwest corner of the park in Coronado. Honey is located in a corner, 100 meters north of the northwest corner of the park in Coronado. Both serve great coffee and other hot drinks, pastries, a few selected dishes and a nice clean and quiet place to meet during the afternoons and evenings.