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Los Santos Wind Farm

onshore wind farm in Costa Rica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ96390826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Los Santos Wind Farm, (Spanish: Parque Eólico Los Santos) is a wind energy project located in Los Santos region of Costa Rica, alongside the Inter-American Highway (Route 2). It is operated by the local public utilities cooperative, Coopesantos, and generates 30% of their distributed energy.

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The public source identifies “Los Santos Wind Farm” as onshore wind farm in Costa Rica. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Santos, Wind and Farm.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Santos, Wind and Farm providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q96390826. Authority coordinates are 9.777, -83.996. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Los Santos Wind Farm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.