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Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

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located in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica was the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish its army. Among Latin American countries, Costa Rica ranks 4th on the 2007 Human Development Index, and 48th worldwide. Costa Rica is ranked 5th in the world on the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, up from the 15th place in 2006. In 2007 the government stated that it wants Costa Rica to be the first country to become carbon neutral by 2021.

General reference

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* International Phonetic Alphabet, Pronunciation: * Common English country name:

* Official English country name: The Republic of Costa Rica * Common

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(s): Tiquicia * Official endonym(s): * Adjectival(s): Costa Rican *

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(s): * Etymology:

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* International rankings of Costa Rica * ISO country codes: CR, CRI, 188 * ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:CR * Internet country code top-level domain:

.cr .cr is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Costa Rica. Second-level domains * .ac.cr - Academic: Universities * .co.cr - Commercial * .ed.cr - Education: Colleges, High Schools, etc. * .fi.cr - Financial institutions such as banks, etc ...

Geography of Costa Rica

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Geography of Costa Rica * Costa Rica is: a Nation state, country * Location: ** Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere *** Americas **** North America ***** Middle America (Americas), Middle America ****** Central America ** Time zone: UTC-06 ** Extreme points of Costa Rica *** High: Cerro Chirripó *** Low: North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea 0 m **Land boundaries: 639 km :: 330 km :: 309 km :* Coastline: 1,290 km * Population of Costa Rica: 4,301,712 ( 2011 census) - 123rd most populous country * *

Area of Costa Rica Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a Region (mathematics), region on the plane (geometry), plane or on a curved surface (mathematics), surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar ...

: 51,100 km² * Atlas of Costa Rica

Environment of Costa Rica

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* Climate of Costa Rica * Deforestation in Costa Rica * List of ecoregions in Costa Rica, Ecoregions in Costa Rica * Renewable Energy in Costa Rica, Renewable energy in Costa Rica *

Geology of Costa Rica The geology of Costa Rica is part of the Panama Microplate, which is slowly moving north relative to the stable Caribbean Plate. In the late Cretaceous, an oceanic trench or backarc system formed in connection with a subduction zone, situated where ...

Protected areas of Costa Rica Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although th ...

** Biosphere reserves in Costa Rica **

National parks of Costa Rica There are currently 30 National Parks of Costa Rica, which are managed under the umbrella of SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion), a department of Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE). All told, Costa Rica's prote ...

Wildlife of Costa Rica The Wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an enormous variety of wildlife, due in large part to its geographic position between the No ...

** Fauna of Costa Rica *** Birds of Costa Rica *** Mammals of Costa Rica **** Monkeys of Costa Rica

Natural geographic features of Costa Rica

* Fjords of Costa Rica * Glaciers of Costa Rica *

Islands of Costa Rica This is a list of islands of Costa Rica. There are about 79 islands in Costa Rica. Islands The islands of Costa Rica include the following:Archive See also * Geography of Costa Rica * List of Caribbean islands References {{North Amer ...

* Lakes of Costa Rica *

Mountains of Costa Rica A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher ...

** Volcanoes in Costa Rica *

Rivers of Costa Rica A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Waterfalls of Costa Rica A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several ...

Valleys of Costa Rica A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...

* World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica

Regions of Costa Rica

Ecoregions of Costa Rica

List of ecoregions in Costa Rica The following is a list of ecoregions in Costa Rica. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species. The biodiversity of flora, fauna and ...

* Neotropical tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests **

Central American Atlantic moist forests The Central American Atlantic moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0111) covers the lowland coastal forests of Honduras, southeast Guatemala, and the eastern forests of Nicaragua. Half of the ecoregion is closed-canopy tropical broadleaf evergreen f ...

Cocos Island moist forests Cocos Island ( es, Isla del Coco) is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. It constitutes the 11th of the 13 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the Puntarenas Province, Pr ...

Costa Rican seasonal moist forests The Costa Rican seasonal moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0119) covers the Pacific Slope of the volcanic mountain range of northwestern Costa Rica and the extreme south of Nicaragua. The area has a distinct dry season during which the character ...

Isthmian–Atlantic moist forests The Isthmian–Atlantic moist forests (NT0129) are a Central American tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion located on the lowland slopes (under 500 meters) on the caribbean sea side of Nicaragua and Costa Rica and the Gulf and Pacific Ocean ...

Isthmian–Pacific moist forests The Isthmian–Pacific moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0130) covers the lowland tropical evergreen forests on the Pacific side of the central mountains of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. As the meeting zone between North and South Ameri ...

** Talamancan montane forests * Neotropical Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests **

Central American dry forests The Central American dry forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests biome, is located in Central America. Geography The ecoregion covers a total area of approximately 68,100 km2. It extends along the Pacific c ...

* Neotropical Montane grasslands and shrublands **

Talamanca Paramo Talamanca may refer to: *Cordillera de Talamanca, a mountain range in Costa Rica and Panama *Kingdom of Talamanca, a former political entity in present day Costa Rica * Talamanca (canton), a canton in Limón, Costa Rica * Talamanca languages, branc ...

* Neotropical Mangrove **

Bocas del Toro–San Bastimentos Island–San Blas mangroves The Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID:NT1407) covers the mangrove (brackish and saltwater) habitats along the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica and across the northern coast of Panama. An offshore reef and ...

Moist Pacific Coast mangroves The Moist Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID:NT1423) covers a series of disconnected mangrove sites along the Pacific Ocean coast of Costa Rica and Panama. These sites occur mostly on coastal flatlands around lagoons, particularly where r ...

Mosquitia–Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves The Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves ecoregion, in the Mangrove biome, are along the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras as well as off shore islands such as the Corn Islands. Description The Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean ...

Rio Negro–Rio San Sun mangroves The Rio Negro-Rio San Sun mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID:NT1431) covers a series of small of discontinuous mangrove forests on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica, from a small portion inside the border with Nicaragua in the west to the border with ...

Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves The Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1434) covers a series of mangrove forests along the Pacific Ocean coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, from the southern margin of the Gulf of Fonseca to the Gulf of Nicoya near the bord ...

Administrative divisions of Costa Rica

Administrative divisions of Costa Rica According to the Political Constitution of Costa Rica of 1949, in article 168, the territorial division of Costa Rica is organized by law into three types of subnational entity: For the purposes of the Public Administration, the national territo ...

* Provinces of Costa Rica ** Cantons of Costa Rica *** Districts of Costa Rica

= Provinces of Costa Rica

= Cantons of Costa Rica

= Districts of Costa Rica

= Municipalities of Costa Rica

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Capital Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences * Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used f ...

of Costa Rica:

San José San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to: *San Jose, California, United States *San José, Costa Rica, the nation's capital San José or San Jose may also refer to: Places Argentina * San José, Buenos Aires ** San ...

* Cantons of Costa Rica

Demography of Costa Rica

Demographics of Costa Rica This is a demography of the population of Costa Rica including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. According to the United Nations, ...

Government and politics of Costa Rica

Politics of Costa Rica *

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of Costa Rica:

* Elections in Costa Rica * Political parties in Costa Rica

Branches of government

Government of Costa Rica The politics of Costa Rica take place in a framework of a presidential, representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabinet, and the President of Costa Rica is both the he ...

Executive branch of the government of Costa Rica

* Head of state: President of Costa Rica * Head of government:

Prime Minister of Costa Rica The Ministry of the Presidency is a ministry of the Republic of Costa Rica created on 24 December 1961 through Law 2980. Its work prescribed by law consists in providing support to the President of the Republic, serving as a liaison between the Pr ...

Cabinet of Costa Rica The politics of Costa Rica take place in a framework of a presidential system, presidential, Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabinet, ...

Legislative branch of the government of Costa Rica

Parliament of Costa Rica The Legislative Assembly ( es, Asamblea Legislativa) forms the unicameral legislative branch of the Costa Rican government. The national congress building is located in the capital city, San José, specifically in Carmen district of the San Jo ...

( unicameral)

Judicial branch of the government of Costa Rica

Court system of Costa Rica *

Supreme Court of Costa Rica The Supreme Court of Costa Rica (Spanish: ''Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica'') is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica. Established on 25 January 1825, the current President of the Supreme Court of Justice is ...

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Foreign relations of Costa Rica Costa Rica is an active member of the international community and, in 1983, claimed it was for neutrality. Due to certain powerful constituencies favoring its methods, it has a weight in world affairs far beyond its size. The country lobbied ag ...

* Diplomatic missions in Costa Rica *

Diplomatic missions of Costa Rica This is a list of diplomatic missions of Costa Rica. Costa Rica is one of the more developed countries in Latin America, and has a moderate sized number of diplomatic missions abroad. Current missions Africa * ** Nairobi (Embassy) Americas * ** ...

International organization membership

The Republic of Costa Rica is a member of: *

Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean The OPANAL (which stands for el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe) is an international organization which promotes a non-aggression pact and nuclear disarmament in much of the Americas. In Eng ...

(OPANAL) *

Central American Bank for Economic Integration The Central American Bank for Economic Integration - CABEI ( BCIE in Spanish) was founded in 1960. It is an international multilateral development financial institution. Its resources are invested in projects that foster development to reduce pov ...

(BCIE) * Central American Common Market (CACM) * Central American Integration System (SICA) * Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) *

Group of 77 The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of 134 developing countries, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 fou ...

(G77) *

Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribb ...

(IADB) *

Inter-Parliamentary Union The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; french: Union Interparlementaire, UIP) is an inter-parliamentary institution, international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and coop ...

(IPU) *

International Atomic Energy Agency The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. It was established in 1957 ...

(IAEA) *

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is an international financial institution, established in 1944 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that is the lending arm of World Bank Group. The IBRD offers l ...

(IBRD) * International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) * International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) * International Criminal Court (ICCt) *

International Criminal Police Organization The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

(Interpol) *

International Development Association The International Development Association (IDA) (french: link=no, Association internationale de développement) is an international financial institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorest developing countries. Th ...

(IDA) *

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people each year through its 192-member National Societies. It acts before, during and after disas ...

(IFRCS) * International Finance Corporation (IFC) *

International Fund for Agricultural Development The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD; french: link=no, Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA)) is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations that works to address ...

(IFAD) * International Labour Organization (ILO) *

International Maritime Organization The International Maritime Organization (IMO, French: ''Organisation maritime internationale'') is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping. The IMO was established following agreement at a UN conference ...

(IMO) * International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) * International Monetary Fund (IMF) * International Olympic Committee (IOC) * International Organization for Migration (IOM) * International Organization for Standardization (ISO) *

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, an ...

(ICRM) * International Telecommunication Union (ITU) * International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) * International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) *

Latin American Economic System The Latin American and the Caribbean Economic System, officially known as Sistema Económico Latinoamericano y del Caribe (SELA), is an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic cooperation and social development between Latin American and th ...

(LAES) * Latin American Integration Association (LAIA) (observer) * Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) *

Nonaligned Movement The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide. The movement originated in the aftermath ...

(NAM) (observer) * Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) *

Organization of American States The Organization of American States (OAS; es, Organización de los Estados Americanos, pt, Organização dos Estados Americanos, french: Organisation des États américains; ''OEA'') is an international organization that was founded on 30 April ...

(OAS) * Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) *

Rio Group The Rio Group (G-Rio) was a permanent association of political consultation of Latin America and Caribbean countries, created in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 18, 1986 with the purpose of creating a better political relationship among the cou ...

(RG) *''

Unión Latina The Latin Union is an international organization of nations that use Romance languages, whose activities have been suspended since 2012. Headquartered in Paris, France, its aim is to protect, project, and promote the common cultural heritage of ...

'' * United Nations (UN) * United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) *

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(UNESCO) * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) * United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) * Universal Postal Union (UPU) * World Confederation of Labour (WCL) * World Customs Organization (WCO) * World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) * World Health Organization (WHO) * World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) * World Meteorological Organization (WMO) * World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) * World Trade Organization (WTO)

Law and order in Costa Rica

Law of Costa Rica * Constitution of Costa Rica * Crime in Costa Rica * Human rights in Costa Rica **

LGBT rights in Costa Rica Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Costa Rica have evolved significantly in the past decades. Same-sex sexual relations have been legal since 1971. In January 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights made mandatory ...

Freedom of religion in Costa Rica Christianity is the predominant religion in Costa Rica, with Roman Catholicism being its largest denomination. Roman Catholicism is also the state religion, but the government generally upholds people's religious freedom in practice. A study ma ...

* Law enforcement in Costa Rica

Military of Costa Rica

Military of Costa Rica The Public Force of Costa Rica ( es, Fuerza Pública de Costa Rica) is the Costa Rican national law enforcement force, which performs policing and border patrol functions. History On 1 December 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Ri ...

* Command ** Commander-in-chief *** Ministry of Defence of Costa Rica * Forces ** Army of Costa Rica **

Navy of Costa Rica A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...

** Air Force of Costa Rica ** Special forces of Costa Rica *

Military history of Costa Rica A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

* Military ranks of Costa Rica

Local government in Costa Rica

Local government in Costa Rica Costa Rica’s municipal system is organized under the Municipal Code, the specific law that regulates the local governments. Municipalities are the Administrative divisions of Costa Rica, second-level administration in Costa Rica after the central ...

History of Costa Rica

History of Costa Rica The first indigenous peoples of Costa Rica were hunters and gatherers, and when the Spanish conquerors arrived, Costa Rica was divided in two distinct cultural areas due to its geographical location in the Intermediate Area, between Mesoamerica ...

* Timeline of the history of Costa Rica * Current events of Costa Rica *

Culture of Costa Rica

Culture of Costa Rica * Architecture of Costa Rica *

Costa Rican people Costa Ricans ( es, Costarricenses), also called Ticos, are the citizens of Costa Rica, a multiethnic, Spanish-speaking nation in Central America. Costa Ricans are predominantly Castizos, other ethnic groups people of Indigenous, European, Africa ...

* Cuisine of Costa Rica *

Festivals in Costa Rica This is a list of festivals celebrated in Costa Rica: This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, trade fairs, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and re ...

* Languages of Costa Rica * Media in Costa Rica * Museums in Costa Rica * National symbols of Costa Rica **

Coat of arms of Costa Rica The official coat of arms of the Republic of Costa Rica was designed in 1848, with modifications in 1906, 1964, and 1998. The latest change was the addition of smoke to distinguish the three volcanoes.

** Flag of Costa Rica ** National anthem of Costa Rica *

Prostitution in Costa Rica Prostitution in Costa Rica is legal. Costa Rica's legal system is based on Roman law rather than common law, and so for prostitution to be illegal it would have to be explicitly stated as such in a penal code, and it is not. Nevertheless, many of t ...

Public holidays in Costa Rica The following are the national public holidays of Costa Rica. Of the eleven days, nine are paid holidays and two are not. Public holidays Dates for moveable holidays *2020 ** July 27 - Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica ** Augus ...

* Records of Costa Rica *

Religion in Costa Rica Christianity is the predominant religion in Costa Rica, with Roman Catholicism being its largest denomination. Roman Catholicism is also the state religion, but the government generally upholds people's religious freedom in practice. A study ...

** Buddhism in Costa Rica ** Christianity in Costa Rica ** Hinduism in Costa Rica **

Islam in Costa Rica Islam is one of the smallest minority faiths in Costa Rica, whose state religion is Catholic Christianity. Without an official number by any state entity, it is considered that the number of Muslims in Costa Rica could be between 1000 and 1500 ...

Judaism in Costa Rica The history of the Jews in Costa Rica dates back to the Spanish conquest with the arrival of many Sephardic converts known as ''Marranos'' who escaped from the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in the city of Cartago, Costa Rica, Cartago and i ...

** Sikhism in Costa Rica * World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica

Art in Costa Rica

* Art in Costa Rica * Cinema of Costa Rica * Literature of Costa Rica *

Music of Costa Rica The country of Costa Rica has many kinds of music. Though its music has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include an indigenous calypso scene, which is distinct from the more widely known Trinidadian calyp ...

Television in Costa Rica Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

* Theatre in Costa Rica

Sports in Costa Rica

Sports in Costa Rica * Football in Costa Rica * Costa Rica at the Olympics

Economy and infrastructure of Costa Rica

Economy of Costa Rica The economy of Costa Rica has been very stable for some years now, with continuing growth in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and moderate inflation, though with a high unemployment rate: 11.49% in 2019. Costa Rica's economy emerged from rece ...

* Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 84th (eighty-fourth) *

Agriculture in Costa Rica Costa Rican agriculture plays a profound part in the country's gross domestic product (GDP). It makes up about 6.5% of Costa Rica's GDP, and 14% of the labor force. Depending upon location and altitude, many regions differ in agricultural crops an ...

* Banking in Costa Rica **

National Bank of Costa Rica Banco Nacional de Costa Rica or BNCR is the largest commercial bank in Costa Rica and the second largest in Central America by assets. It has a 49% stake in Banco de Costa Rica International Limited (BICSA), incorporated with the Republic of Panam ...

* Communications in Costa Rica ** Internet in Costa Rica * Companies of Costa Rica * Currency of Costa Rica: Colón **

ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual cu ...

: CRC *

Health care in Costa Rica Costa Rica provides universal health care to its citizens and permanent residents. Both the private and public health care systems in Costa Rica are continually being upgraded. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) frequently place C ...

* Costa Rica Stock Exchange *

Tourism in Costa Rica Tourism in Costa Rica has been one of the fastest growing economic sectors of the country and by 1995 became the largest foreign exchange earner. Since 1999, tourism has earned more foreign exchange than bananas, pineapples and coffee exports com ...

* Transport in Costa Rica ** Airports in Costa Rica **

Rail transport in Costa Rica upright=1.20 , Universidad de Costa Rica station, San Pedro, Montes de Oca. Rail transport in Costa Rica is primarily under the stewardship of Incofer (Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles), an autonomous institution of the state. Incofe ...

** Roads in Costa Rica *

Water supply and sanitation in Costa Rica Costa Rica has made significant progress in the past decade in expanding access to water supply and sanitation, but the sector faces key challenges in low sanitation connections, poor service quality, and low cost recovery. Access In 2015, in ...

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