Soda Curubandé
Sodas & Local Food · Guanacaste · Lunch
The one restaurant in the center of Curubandé, the farming village at the foot of Rincón de la Vieja: casados, rice dishes and bocas, cooked the traditional way. A handy lunch stop before or after the national park, waterfalls and hot springs nearby.
Dishes to try
casado · rice dishes · bocas
Before you go
- Kids
- Good for kids
- Checked
- 2026-10
Contact & directions
- Location: 10.721337, -85.40755 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Poza La Pipa (Curubandé)Swimming spot · FreeThe biggest of Curubandé's turquoise river pools, a family favorite with a natural rock slide polished by the current and little stone dams built by swimmers.
- La Leona WaterfallWaterfall · hidden gemA small turquoise waterfall at the end of a narrow Río Blanco canyon just outside Curubandé, 20–30 minutes from Liberia.
- Cañón de Liberia Lookout (Las Morocochas)Viewpoint · Free · hidden gemA lookout over the deep canyon of the Río Liberia, where white volcanic gravel (cascajo) and twisted dry-forest shrubs make the slopes look almost snowy.
- Poza Los Coyotes (Cañas Dulces)Swimming spot · about $6Crystal-clear turquoise pools, small waterfalls and a cave on a family farm founded in 1827 near Cañas Dulces, a cheap and well-loved swimming day out from Liberia.
- La Cangreja WaterfallWaterfall · about $17A slender waterfall dropping into an electric-blue pool deep in Rincón de la Vieja National Park — the reward for a roughly 10 km round-trip hike through dry forest and grassland.
- Rio Negro Hot SpringsSwimming spot · hidden gemA hot spring near Liberia, Guanacaste province.