Costa Rican literature has roots in colonization and is marked by European influences. Because Costa Rica is a young country, its literary tradition is...

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

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

Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for encomienda (forced labor), which meant most of the Costa Rican...

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...

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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 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 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...

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...

After 1869, Costa Rica established a democratic government. After the Costa Rican Civil War in 1948, the government drafted a new constitution, guaranteeing...

The First Costa Rican Republic is the name given to the historical period between the proclamation of the Republic of Costa Rica in the 1848 reformed...

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

generation" (Generación del 40) of Costa Rican literature. He was also an active militant in the Communist Party of Costa Rica. Fabián Dobles was the eighth...

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Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent. It evolved from the art of oral storytelling. Written works...

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The following are the national public holidays of Costa Rica. Of the eleven days, nine are paid holidays and two are not. The Day of the Dead (Día de...

is required to be president or vice president of the Republic: To be Costa Rican by birth and a citizen in exercise; To have secular status; To be older...

Costa Rica is administratively divided into seven provinces which are subdivided into 84 cantons, and these are further subdivided into districts. Cantons...

1887 – May 14, 1949) was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born María Isabel Carvajal Quesada. She was a teacher and founder...

Carlos Fonseca Suárez (born 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer and academic. He is the author of the novels Colonel Lágrimas...

Costa Rica's official and predominant language is Spanish. The variety spoken there, Costa Rican Spanish, is a form of Central American Spanish. Costa...

recipient: $107.1 million (1995) Currency: 1 Costa Rican colon (₡) = 100 centimos Exchange rates: Costa Rican colones (₡) per US$1 – 526.46 (March 27, 2015)...

Stateside Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (Spanish: puertorriqueño-americanos...

season. Ten percent of known butterfly species worldwide reside in Costa Rica. Costa Rican butterflies and moths have made amazing adaptations to the environment...

Julieta Dobles Yzaguirre (born 11 March 1943) is a Costa Rican poet, writer, and educator. She is a five-time winner of the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award [es]...

figure in linguistics and literature in Costa Rica. His work in language studies formed the basis for a large part of Costa Rican academic exploration during...