Nicoya

[ ni-koi-uh; Spanish nee-kaw-yah ]

noun

1. Gulf of, an arm of the Pacific Ocean on the NW coast of Costa Rica.

Example Sentences

The two camps agree on four blue zones—Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya, and Ikaria—but there are some differences.

From Science Magazine

Luis Rosero-Bixby, an emeritus demographer at the University of Costa Rica who helped declare the blue zone in Nicoya in 2007, recently published a study showing people born after 1930 are no longer living unusually long lives.

From Science Magazine

But two places did make the cut: the peninsula of Nicoya in Costa Rica in 2007, and the island of Ikaria in Greece in 2008.

From Science Magazine

She and her husband have lived temporarily in New Orleans, San Francisco and three small beach towns on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, among other mini sabbatical locales.

From Seattle Times

The region of Nicoya in Costa Rica—one of those original Blue Zones—appears to no longer be a place where people live longer lives than usual.

From Slate