CRC 506 Gran Fondo of Costa Rica
Date
Sunday 01.06.2025Distances
72 - 141 kmCity
Jaco
Country
Costa RicaCRC 506 Gran Fondo Costa Rica was one of the great new events in the UCI Gran Fondo World Series 2023 calendar which boasted a big peloton of 700 riders in its first edition starting in the capital city of San José to arrive next to the Pacific Ocean in Puntarenas.
GRANFONDO
The biggest mass participation event in cycling in Central America will move for its third edition to the Pacific coastline in between Jaco and Quepos.
The new course has a 141km granfondo starting in Jaco to go south along the coastline towards Quepos where the course makes a loop around the turning point to come back over the same road towards Quepos. With 841m of elevation, this is a rather flattish event.
The mediofondo of nearly 73km starts in Quepos and only does the second part of the course finishing in Jaco for 410m of elevation.
MEDIOFONDO
The Mediofondo in Costa Rica has the same course as the granfondo but starts later from Quepos to finish in Jaco after 72.9km
COSTA RICA
Costa Rica has a lot on offer for tourists. Surrounded by Panama in the south and Nicaragua in the north, the country has a long coastline with the Caribbean Sea on the east side and the Pacific Ocean on the westside. Tourism is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the country with people traveling over for nature and wildlife including trekking, flora, fauna and bird watching but also for outdoor activities.
The country has a lot of national parks, volcanoes but also beaches.
