Costa Rica
Our Top Picks For Costa Rica
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1 Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Slink like a sloth into a hammock and gently rock away the days
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2 San José
Take in some culture at the capital’s magnificently grand Teatro Nacional
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3 Turrialba
Ride your adrenaline high after rafting some of the world’s fiercest rapids
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4 Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio
Get up close and personal with rare squirrel monkeys
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5 Parque Nacional Carara
Spot scarlet macaws in the canopy and crocodiles on the river banks
Fast Facts about Costa Rica
- Annual carbon dioxide emissions per person (metric tons)
: 1.2 (USA: 19.9)
- Passenger cars per 1000 people
82.2 (USA: 477.8)
- Annual coffee consumption per person
4.1kg (USA: 4kg)
- Percentage of population using the Internet
29% (USA: 56%)
- Population living below the poverty line
18% (USA: 12%)
- Life expectancy at birth
78 years (USA: 78 years)
- Population
four million
- Percentage of protected land
27% (USA: 16%)
- Number of species of birds
850 (USA: 508)
- Adult literacy
96% (USA: 97%)
Related Groups
Our favourite Costa Rica Blogs (beta)
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Video of the Week – Costa Rican Waterfall Jump
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 July 2009
__________________ Back in 2005, I backpacked around Costa Rica for 18 days. In Montezuma, I hiked up to a series of 3 waterfalls. The middle one is a good 30-feet high, but I didn’t have my camera, nor was I ever able to find a decent photo of it thereafter. And then Christian from Around the World [...] Related posts:The Costa Rica Connection
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The Power of Education and Collaboration
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 20 June 2009
As I described in a previous blog post, EDESA (Kiva’s field partner in Costa Rica) works with a network of Community Credit Enterprises (ECCs by their Spanish acronym). To reiterate a bit, the ECCs are small, grassroots microfinance organizations formed by rural community members. FINCA Costa Rica provides extensive training in these communities to teach [...]
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Costa Rica, Part Three
Blog: Curves and Levels - 11 April 2009
Volcán Arenal is Costa Rica's youngest and most active volcano, erupting continuously since it "woke up" with a major explosion in 1968.
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Introducing Costa Rica
The bellowing of the howler monkeys echoes across the treetops of the Parque Nacional Corcovado and you wonder if it was wise to venture into the jungle at the crack of dawn. You spot the creatures in a nearby fig tree, feasting on fruit. Out on the deserted beaches of San Miguel and Coyote, magnificent frigate birds are circling high overhead. Less-than-sonorous squawking gives away a pair of scarlet macaws, alighting from an almond tree. Morning has broken in the coastal rain forest.
Similar scenes are unfolding across Costa Rica: from the dry tropical forest along the Central Pacific Coast to the misty cloud forests of Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo at higher altitudes, this wildlife wonderland is coming alive. More than 27% of the country's area is protected, creating a haven for countless species of flora and fauna.
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Latest headlines for Costa Rica
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No breakthrough in Honduras talks
10 July 2009 9:15AM
Honduras' interim leader Roberto Micheletti leaves mediation talks in Costa Rica without meeting ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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Q&A: Crisis in Honduras
8 July 2009 9:36AM
A look at what is behind the removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Honduran presidency and what this means for the country.
