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    Nicoya is a district and head city of the Nicoya canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, located on the Nicoya Peninsula. It is one of the country's...
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  • Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica August 14 - Mother's Day 2024 April 15 - Juan Santamaría Day July 29 - Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica August...
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    The Nicoya Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Nicoya) is a peninsula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is divided into two provinces: Guanacaste Province...
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    the leadership of the villages of Nicoya and Santa Cruz, the Partido de Nicoya voted to annex themselves to Costa Rica on 25 July 1824. The inhabitants...
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    conquest of Costa Rica lasted more than half a century after it started 1510. The genocidal enslavement of the indigenous societies of Nicoya on the Pacific...
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  • A.D. Guanacasteca (category Football clubs in Costa Rica)
    Asociación Deportiva Guanacasteca is a Costa Rican football team based in Nicoya, Guanacaste. They currently play in the Costa Rican First Division. Their home...
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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, though...
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  • earthquakes in the history of Costa Rica include the following: Costa Rica portal Geology of Costa Rica "Sismo en Costa Rica deja tres muertos por infarto"...
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    lived in Costa Rica for what stretches back to at least 10,000 years before the arrival of the Spaniards. The northwest of the country, the Nicoya Peninsula...
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    Cañas and Nicoya. The province is named for the guanacaste tree, also known as the ear pod tree, which is the national tree of Costa Rica. Before the...
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    Province, in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Its political, economic and religious center was the city of Nicoya, located on the peninsula of the same...
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  • The 2012 Costa Rica earthquake occurred at 08:42 local time (14:42 UTC) on September 5. The epicenter of the 7.6 Mw earthquake was in the Nicoya Peninsula...
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    Costa Rica is administratively divided into seven provinces which are subdivided into 84 cantons, and these are further subdivided into districts. Cantons...
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    district of the Santa Cruz canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, located on the Nicoya Peninsula. The town of Tamarindo is the largest developed...
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  • Nicoya is a canton in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. The head city is in Nicoya district. When conquistador Gil Gonzalez Dávila entered Nicoya...
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    This is a list of airports in Costa Rica, sorted by location. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered...
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    9 million. Costa Rica was the point where the Mesoamerican and South American native cultures met. The northwest of the country, the Nicoya peninsula,...
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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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  • Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Icaria, Greece. The name "blue zones" derived simply during...
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    Nosara (redirect from Nosara, Costa Rica)
    district of the Nicoya canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. Nosara was created on 26 January 1988 by Acuerdo 40. Despite the Nicoya peninsula being...
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    The Partido de Nicoya was a major part of what is now the Guanacaste province in Costa Rica. Originally the territory was bounded on the northeast by the...
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    annexation of the Partido de Nicoya to Costa Rica is a historical event that refers to the incorporation of the territory of Nicoya (most of what is today's...
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  • The country of Costa Rica has many kinds of music. Though its music has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include...
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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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  • Province, Costa Rica. It is located about 150 kilometres (93 mi) west of the capital city of San José. Like other coastal villages on the Nicoya Peninsula...
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  • Costa Rica. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Costa Rica. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Costa...
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  • Nicoya Peninsula Protected Zone (Spanish: Zona Protectora Península de Nicoya), is a protected area in Costa Rica, managed under the Tempisque Conservation...
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  • and Costa Rica the particular focus of the recently initiated project is on the sites position within the transcultural networks of the Greater Nicoya region...
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  • Gulf of Nicoya. During the 9th century, speakers of the now-extinct Oto-Manguean language Chorotega controlled most of northeast Costa Rica. Other Mesoamerican...
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    Montezuma is a town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica which began as a remote fishing village and has gained popularity since the 1980s among tourists...
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