The town grid
Regular blocks set around a central square form a clear chequerboard, the kind of Spanish colonial-style plan that reads cleanly in black and white at any print size.
Minimalist map poster · Costa Rica
10.4311° N / 85.0982° W
A compact grid town on the Inter-American Highway, set in the flat Guanacaste lowlands between volcanic uplands and the Tempisque basin

One city, five moods
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On the wall



The map
Cañas sits in the dry northwest of Costa Rica, in Guanacaste Province, where the land opens into broad cattle country and irrigated fields. From above, the town is a tidy rectangle of blocks laid out on a regular grid, with the Inter-American Highway running along its edge and carrying traffic between the Nicaraguan border and the Central Valley.
On a Cañas map poster the pattern is easy to read: straight streets meeting at right angles, a central square with the church, and the grid thinning into farm tracks and scattered buildings at the outskirts. Beyond the town, rivers draining the Guanacaste uplands wind southwest across the plain toward the Tempisque, one of the country's major lowland rivers.
The town is known well beyond its size for its parish church, whose walls are covered in colourful mosaic work by the Costa Rican artist Otto Apuy. Cañas is also a common base for trips to the Corobicí River and to the Tenorio volcano area to the north, which gives the place a steady flow of travellers passing through.
Regular blocks set around a central square form a clear chequerboard, the kind of Spanish colonial-style plan that reads cleanly in black and white at any print size.
The long highway runs past the town as a strong continuous line, linking Cañas north toward Liberia and Nicaragua and south toward Puntarenas and San José.
Rivers flowing off the northern uplands cross the plain around Cañas in loose curves, adding soft organic lines to the edges of an otherwise orderly street pattern.
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Why Cañas
For people who grew up in Guanacaste or spent time on the Corobicí and around Tenorio, Cañas is a place of long dry-season light and open country. A clean grid on the wall is a quiet way to keep that memory close.
The poster can carry your own title, a subtitle such as a family name or a date, and a coordinates line. Choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand to suit the room it will hang in.
Order the Cañas poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
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