Conglomerates are a type of sedimentary rock constituted by hard rock blocks embedded in a fine soft matrix. Due to the blocks present in the conglomerate, the study of mechanical properties by conventional laboratory tests is complicated. On the other hand, in-situ tests are more representative to define the mechanical properties of this type of materials; however, conducting these tests implies a lot of time and high costs, and their use is justified only for large-scale projects. This study provides the geotechnical characterization of a conglomerate located in the southern region of Costa Rica, where a large part of the works of the El Diquís Hydroelectric Project (PHED) will be built. The first objective of this research was to define the mechanical properties of the blocks and the matrix separately by using the results of characterization and strength tests. These tests were developed at the Geotechnical Laboratory of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute and the Rock-Fluid Interaction Laboratory at PUC-Rio. At a second research stage, numerical tests were conducted on virtual conglomerate samples. The creation of the virtual samples was based on the field and laboratory works performed during the first research stage. The numerical tests using virtual samples were carried out by applying the finite element method in the PLAXIS 2D 2014 program. The interpretation of the test results allowed determining the strength and deformability parameters of the conglomerate at different scales of the samples under analysis. Finally, the mechanical parameters derived from the numerical modeling were compared with the data from the interpretation of the field tests performed as part of the geotechnical studies at the dam site of the PHED, where plate load tests and multistage direct shear tests were carried out, thus corroborating the validity of the estimation that was made.