The nation’s emergency commission says work will start today on a seven-kilometer stretch of highway between Belén and Huacas in the Nicoya Peninsula. This is an important route for tourists who have faced damaged roads for the last year. It is a route to Tamarindo, Flamingo and other Pacific beach towns.

The job has been contracted to Corporación Pedregal of Santa Ana for 200 million colons or $388,000. The work will be supervised by the Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias and the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad.

A second stretch of 22 kilometers also will see repair when the first job is finished. That work is for more than $1 million.