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2. Hurricanes in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Tropical Storm Nate spreading heavy rain and strong winds over much of Central America, including Costa Rica.. Costa Rica (English: Rich Coast), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Ecuador to ...

3. Prostitution in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Currently, tourism ranks as Costa Rica's second highest source of revenue. In 2000, revenue from tourism accounted for 21% of Costa Rica's total exports. Increasingly, Costa Rica is becoming reliant upon tourism as a source of income; the number of tourist arrivals in 2000 had more than doubled compared to the number of tourists a decade ...

4. Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   Indigenous people of Costa Rica, or Native Costa Ricans, are the people who lived in what is now Costa Rica prior to European and African contact and the descendants of those peoples. About 114,000 indigenous people live in the country, comprising 2.4% of the total population. [ 1 ]

5. Arenal Volcano - Wikipedia

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   It was Costa Rica's most active volcano until 2010, and one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world. It has been studied by seismologists for many years. The volcano is located at the center of Arenal Volcano National Park in the northern zone of the country, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of the La Fortuna district in San Carlos ...

6. History of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   The oldest evidence of human occupation in Costa Rica is associated with the arrival of groups of hunter-gatherers about 10,000 to 19,000 years BC, with ancient archaeological evidence (stone tool making) located in the Turrialba Valley, at sites called Guardiria and Florence, with matching quarry and workshop areas with presence of type clovis spearheads and South American inspired arrows.

7. Demographics of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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   The most recent nationwide survey of religion in Costa Rica, conducted in 2007 by the University of Costa Rica, found that 70.5 percent of the population identify themselves as Roman Catholics (with 44.9 percent practicing, 25.6 percent nonpracticing), 13.8 percent are Evangelical Protestants, 11.3 percent report that they do not have a ...