Spanish-speaking nation in Central America. Costa Ricans are predominantly Mestizos, other ethnic groups people of Indigenous, European, African, and Asian...

Afro–Costa Ricans are Costa Ricans of African ancestry. Costa Rica has four small minority groups: Mulattoes, Blacks, Amerindians and Asians (primarily...

under 3% of the population was of African descent. These are called Afro-Costa Ricans or West Indians and are English-speaking descendants of 19th-century...

the State of Costa Rica within the United Provinces of Central America (a blue and white striped United Provinces flag, with the Costa Rican State Seal...

Costa Rican Americans (estadounidenses de origen costarricense) are Americans of at least partial Costa Rican descent. The Costa Rican population in 2018...

Costa Rican cuisine is known for being mostly mild, with high reliance on fruits and vegetables. Rice and black beans are a staple of most traditional...

The Costa Rican Civil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948. The conflict followed the presidential elections of 8 February 1948, in which opposition...

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...

Costa Rica Costa Rican culture has been heavily influenced by Spanish culture ever since the Spanish colonization of the Americas including the territory...

after animals have been found. The influence of indigenous peoples on modern Costa Rican culture has been relatively small compared to other nations...

Spanish Costa Rican are people from Costa Rica with Spanish ancestry from both the conquerors of the colonial period and as immigrants who arrived after...

A Costa Rican passport (Spanish: Pasaporte costarricence) is an identity document issued to Costa Rican citizens to travel outside Costa Rica. Currently...

The country of Costa Rica has many kinds of music. Though its music has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include...

Italian Costa Ricans (Italian: italo-costaricani; Spanish: ítalo-costarricenses) are Costa Rican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent...

bicentennial of Costa Rican independence. Four private banks, the Banco Anglo–Costarricense, the Banco Comercial de Costa Rica, the Banco de Costa Rica and the...

Costa Rican nationality law is regulated by the Options and Naturalizations Act (Spanish: Ley de Opciones y Naturalizaciones), which was originally named...

banking sector, granted women and Afro-Costa Ricans the right to vote, and offered Costa Rican nationality to people of African descent. His son José María...

indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree. In the years soon after European encounter, many of the people died...

Costa Rican oxcarts, called carretas in Spanish, are a large part of Costa Rican history. They allowed for the expansion and increase of exports of many...

Daniel Zovatto Blanco (born June 28, 1991) is a Costa Rican and American film and television actor. Since 2012, he has starred in films of the horror...

Costa Rican Spanish (Spanish: español costarricense) is the form of the Spanish language spoken in Costa Rica. It is one of the dialects of Central American...

Costa Rican People's Party (Spanish: Partido del Pueblo Costarricense, abbreviated as PPC) was a communist party in Costa Rica. In March 1984 the Popular...

the Costa Rican people, the government of Venezuela also made public an official statement. Garcia, David Alire; Pretel, Enrique Andres. "Costa Rica...

to Americans traveling and living in Costa Rica. Costa Rican American Costa Rica–United States relations "Costa Rica retirement not always tropical paradise...

Santamaría Rodríguez (August 29, 1831 – April 11, 1856) was a drummer in the Costa Rican army, officially recognized as the national hero of his country for his...

Facio, Lady Scott (born Giannina Facio Franco; September 10, 1955), is a Costa Rican actress who has appeared in several films, especially those of her husband...

Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations...

Felipe J. Alvarado, Founder of Rotary Club Costa Rica (1977) es:Pablo de Alvarado y Bonilla, doctor, Costa Rican politician and Independence leader (1971)...

This is a list of notable Costa Rican politicians. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Vicente Aguilar Cubero Florentino Alfaro...

Yokasta Galeth Valle Álvarez (born 28 August 1992) is a Nicaraguan-born Costa Rican professional boxer. She has been world champion in three weight classes...