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Costa Rica is considered a hot spot for biodiversity and wildlife conservation in Central America, and sea turtles are a good example of this. Largely distributed along both the Caribbean and Pacific coast, adult females of five of the seven extant sea turtle species select beaches on both coasts as their breeding sites. Although Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas), Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), Hawksbill Sea Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), and Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) have been extensively studied in Costa Rica, little information regarding Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) is available. Thus, we present an exhaustive data record of every Loggerhead encountered at Tortuguero beach (northeastern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica) over the past 60 yr. We collected Loggerhead nesting data between 1957 and 2021 through daytime and nocturnal monitoring …