Costa Rica has bewilderingly diverse culture, climates, flora, and fauna, and landscapes range from rainforests, to dry tropical and temperate forests, to volcanoes, to Caribbean and Pacific beaches, to high mountains, and marshy lowlands.
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Nestled along the heart of what’s known as the Gold Coast, on the country’s northern Pacific, Tamarindo is one of the first beach towns that started drawing expats to Costa Rica decades ago. Over the years this area has managed to maintain small, rustic beach town characteristics but has...
The area was at first part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, then part of the Mexican Empire, then part of the Federal Republic of Central America, then part of the Captaincy of Guatemala; it was mostly autonomous until independence. The country was named Costa Rica, meaning 'Rich Coast',...
Map of Costa RicaRepublic of Costa Rica President: Luis Guillermo Solís (2014) Land area: 19,560 sq mi (50,660 sq km); total area: 19,730 sq mi (51,100 sq km) Population (2014 est.): 4,755,234 (growth rate: 1.24%); birth rate: 16.08/1000; infant mortality rate: 8.7/1000;...
Type: Residential area Location: Costa Rica, Central America, North America View on OpenStreetMapLatitude9.2214° or 9° 13' 17" north Longitude-83.7895° or 83° 47' 22" west Open Location Code66XR66C6+H6 OpenStreetMap IDway 539284685 OpenStreetMap Featurelanduse=...
*anyone who does math on the fly as a hobby might notice that 148,000 tiles is only about half as many as needed to get to zoom level nine for a map of an area the size of Costa Rica. This is true but all of the open ocean tiles were assigned to a single blue square and in...
Topographic Maps of Costa Rica Sample of the 133 series 1:50,000 Topo map for Arenal Volcano The official government topographic maps of Costa Rica (Instituto Geográfico Nacional) come in two scales covering the entire country with either 133 sheets or 9 sheets. ...
All populated places of Costa Rica are located in one time zone. Costa Rica on the mapOther names of Costa Rica: English: Republic of Costa Rica Spanish: República de Costa RicaCapital San Jose Neighbors Costa Rica has 2 neighboring countries:Nicaragua, Panama Area 51,100 km2 Population 4,...
Costa Rica is located in the Central American Isthmus, within the geographical coordinates 8° and 11° north latitude and 82° and 85°, of west longitude. Including its insular area it has an extension of 51,100 km (50,660 km ² of land and 440 km ² of water). Next to Belize...