The Chorotega Regional Campus, located in the province of Guanacaste, was established with the Universidad Nacional in 1973.

In 1998, it became a Regional Campus made up of the Liberia Campus and the Nicoya Campus, with the aim of offering academic training opportunities to young people from the area and from other provinces in the country.

Photograph: Temple of San Blas in the canton of Nicoya, declared a site of historical and architectural interest in 1995.

 

The regional presence of the UNA, its social vocation, the creation of study opportunities, the regional impact of research and extension projects, academic excellence, regional links, decentralization, and accountability, are some of the components of the regional presence policy, which significantly raises the quality of the academic work of this University Campus."

 

Project management at the Chorotega Regional Headquarters is focused on providing a holistic contribution to the community, with the aim of prioritizing the strengthening of vulnerable populations and achieving meaningful inclusion, providing creative and innovative solutions and generating egalitarian, inclusive and participatory transformation.

The Mesoamerican Center for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE), located on the Nicoya Campus, is a program that systematically coordinates subprograms, projects and activities to offer solutions to the economic, social, environmental, political and cultural problems of the Mesoamerican region. It works in conjunction with other academic units of the Universidad Nacional, with other universities and state bodies, as well as with public and private organizations, both national and international.

CEMEDE participates in territorial projects of a productive nature (tourism, agriculture), environmental (adaptation to climate change), community (organizational, management and inclusion) and SMEs (innovation and management). It maintains inter-institutional coordination in 66 decision-making spaces in the province of Guanacaste.

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The Water Resources Center for Central America and the Caribbean (HIDROCEC), located on the Liberia Campus, is an academic program that works on the issue of water under the approach of “Integral Management of Water Resources.” Its work is carried out in three areas of development:

  • Watershed Management.
  • Water Quality and Treatment
  • Reuse

It has:

  • An Environmental Microbiology Laboratory.
  • A Water Physicochemical Analysis Laboratory.
  • A Geographic Information Systems Laboratory.

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