The Las Baulas de Guanacaste Marine National Park is hereby created, the boundaries of which, according to the Villarreal and Matapalo cartographic sheets at a scale of 1:50,000 from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional, shall be as follows:
starting from a point located at coordinates N 259,100 and E 332,000, follows a straight line until reaching an imaginary line parallel to the coast, one hundred and twenty-five meters seaward from the ordinary high-water mark (pleamar ordinaria). Along this imaginary line, the boundary continues in a southeast direction, until ending at the point with coordinates N 255,000 and E 335,050.
The Park shall also encompass the Tamarindo, Ventanas, and San Francisco estuaries (esteros) and their mangroves; the hill (cerro) located immediately behind Ventanas beach, El Morro hill (cerro El Morro), Capitán Island, Verde Island, the fifty-meter public zone, measured from the ordinary high-water mark (pleamar ordinaria), between Punta San Francisco and the San Francisco estuary (estero San Francisco), and the territorial waters of Tamarindo Bay, comprised between Punta Conejo and the southern end of Langosta beach, up to the ordinary high-water mark line (pleamar ordinaria).