The city lies at an elevation of 229 meters above sea level in a relatively
flat section on the west side of the coastal mountain range of Costa Rica, It
is 26 kilometers northeast of the Pacific Ocean at Tárcoles, 48 kilometers
southwest of the provincial capital city of Alajuela, and 66 kilometers from
the national capital city of San Jose. With the Ciudad Colón-Orotina highway
completed the time it takes to get from the capital to Orotina is just about 45
minutes, instead of the 80-90 minutes it used to take
