Is the estuary at Tamarindo, Costa Rica, populated with alligators?

Question

What is it like to go swiming there?

Answer 1

Personally I have never seen a croc at Tamarindo or anywhere near there, nor have I heard anyone mention it.  These days Tamarindo is pretty popular, so I imagine the crocs have moved somewhere less traveled.

The beaches and the swimming in Tamarindo are awesome!

Answer 2

Not Alligators, Crocodiles.

In Spanish: Cocodrillos.

Answer 3

yeah its packed of them. my dad and i were walking there once and saw this crocodile eat at bird. its dangerous to swim there. but in tamarindo beach is cool.

Answer 4

I lived there for 4 years and I spoke to the local surfers they told me that the caymanes ( dont know how to spell it but its a small type of alligator) actually use to swim out to open sea. you should only cross at low tide and not at high tide, if not paddle over with your surfboard very quickly. there has been stories of caymanes biting people especially down towards jaco and manuel antonio

Answer 5

noo its cool. go there it's nice! theres monkeys!

have fun, be careful too dude

Answer 6

No.  Even if there had been they are all gone, the pollution levels at Tamarindo are high, any similarly polluted (fecal content mostly but agricultural run-off also) in  the U.S., Canada, Europe, etc would be closed to the public.  You can check this for yourself by reading amcostarica.com and using its search tool, putting in tamarindo pollution.