GENERAL INFORMATION
Costa Rica is a small country located in Central America with a surface of 51,100 km2s only greater than El Salvador and Belize, but, from many points of view, is a great destiny for the visitor. It has a diversity of animal and vegetal species characteristic of the intertropical zone that respond to the location of the country in agreement with the geographical coordinateses that is between 8° 02 ' 26 " and 11° 13 ' 12 " to the north of Ecuador and 82° 33 ' 48 " to the west of Greenwich. Costa Rica by its ítsmica position meant a biological and cultural bridge that permtió the encounter of forest and animal species, as well as of cultures of the north and the south of the continent. As far as its geologic formation the country comprises of young territories of America. This supposes to say that until beginnings of the tertiary one, Costa Rica and Panama they were occupied by a great marine channel that communicated the present Caribbean with the Pacific, all of which formed a form of continental massive archipelago rather before. It has been gotten to affirm that the present peninsulas of Nicoya and Osa are rest of these first-born islands. From mid the tertiary one, strong tectonic and volcanic movements allowed to the total rise of the country and the sprouting, throughout an area, of the well-known fracture like Depression of Nicaragua, of present volcanic mountain ranges of Guanacaste and Central. Nevertheless, it was in the quaternary when it was finished consolidating the Costa Rican territory and I prepare the scene for the location of the first natives who settled down themselves in our territory. It has a diversity of flora and fauna of but the high ones of the world. Its ístmica position allowed to the migration of species between the continental masses of the North and the South him America. Thus the new marine strip began a process of diversification between the species of both seas. Due to its geographic position, the exhibited country this during almost all the year to the tradewinds of the northwest that come from the Caribbean and arrive loaded from humidity. This causes that coastal regions, most of the mountainous plains of the north and slopes that receive those winds have forts precipitations.
- Motto "Long live work and peace"
- Capital San José
- Largest city San José
- Official language(s) Spanish
- Government Constitutional democracy
- President Laura Chinchilla
- Currency Costa Rican colón (CRC)
- Demonym Costa Rican, Tico
- Time zone CTZ UTC-6
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