The University of Costa Rica (Spanish: Universidad de Costa Rica, abbreviated UCR) is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America...
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and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley...
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Costa Rica (UK: /ˌkɒstə ˈriːkə/, US: /ˌkoʊstə-/ ; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country...
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a demographic article about Costa Rica's population, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status...
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is under discussion. The parliamentary fractions in Costa Rica correspond to the representation of the political parties according to the electoral results...
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The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres in Costa Rica, on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Locally, they are also...
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Costa Rica Costa Rican culture has been heavily influenced by Spanish culture ever since the Spanish colonization of the Americas including the territory...
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Costa Rica has both public and private universities, such as the University of Costa Rica and University for Peace. Public universities are some of the...
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National University of Costa Rica (in Spanish, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, abbreviated UNA) is one of five public universities in the Republic of Costa...
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canton of Heredia province, Costa Rica. As the seat of the municipality of Heredia canton, it is awarded the status of city, and by virtue of being the...
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Latin University of Costa Rica (Spanish: Universidad Latina de Costa Rica), commonly called ULatina, is the largest private university in Costa Rica, with...
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The first indigenous peoples of Costa Rica were hunters and gatherers, and when the Spanish conquerors arrived, Costa Rica was divided in two distinct...
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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,...
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Education in Costa Rica is divided in 3 cycles: pre-education (before age 7), primary education (from 6-7 to 12-13), and secondary school (from 12-13 to...
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Christianity is the predominant religion in Costa Rica, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. Catholicism is also the state religion, but the...
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Costa Ricans (Spanish: Costarricenses, colloquially known as Ticos) are the citizens of Costa Rica, a multiethnic, Spanish-speaking nation in Central America...
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The politics of Costa Rica take place in a framework of a presidential, representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Executive power...
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Costa Rica was a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory...
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Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional...
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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...
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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...
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between Costa Rica and the United States have been historically close; nevertheless there were instances in history where the US and Costa Rica disagreed...
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Abortion in Costa Rica is severely restricted by criminal law. Currently, abortions are allowed in Costa Rica only in order to preserve the life or physical...
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district in the canton of San Ramón in Alajuela Province in Costa Rica. The central municipality (distrito) of San Ramón covers an area of 1.29 km2 (0.50 sq mi)...
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The Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) (Spanish: Tecnológico de Costa Rica) is a university in Costa Rica specializing in engineering and advanced...
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energy in Costa Rica supplied about 98.1% of the electrical energy output for the entire nation in 2016. Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total energy)...
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a district of the Grecia canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. Grecia has an area of 7.51 km2 (2.90 sq mi) and an elevation of 999 m (3,278 ft)...
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Parks of Costa Rica are managed under the umbrella of SINAC (Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion), a department of Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment...
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This is a list of reptiles in Costa Rica. Genus Basiliscus (brown basilisk, common basilisk, plumed basilisk) Genus Corytophanes (helmeted iguana) Genus...
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Costa Rica has more Buddhists than the other countries in Central America with almost 100,000 (2.34% of total population), followed closely by Panama...
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