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Costa Rica

By:Ricky, Ashton, and Quinn

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Geo-graphics

  • capital- San Jose (not in California)
  • country- Central America
  • Longitude, -84, 05
  • Latitude, 9, 56
  • Located in North America

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Landscape and Climate

  • 50% forests of different trees.
  • 30% reserved protected areas.
  • The rest of it is rain forests, mountains, volcano's, coastal lowlands, beaches, and rivers.
  • In San Jose the average temperature is 67 degrees.
  • In coastal lowlands where most Costa Recons live the average temperature is 81 degrees.

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Modern Culture

  • Art-dancing, musical insruments, painting, and pottery.
  • 76.3 are roman Catholic.
  • 13.7 are evangelical.
  • 1.3 are Jehovah's witnesses.
  • 0.7 are other Protestant.
  • 4.8 are other.
  • 3.2 are nun.
  • They all care 100% about their religion.
  • Languages are Spanish, English, Patua, Bribi,
  • Food is gala pinto, Casodo, Olladecarto, and tamales, to name a few.
  • The population is 4,576,562 people

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Early Cultures of Costa Rica

  • Native People arrived in Costa Rica in 1502
  • In 1821 Costa Rica joined other American Nations for declaring Independence from Spain
  • Abolished the Army in 1948
  • Voters elected Miguel Angel Rodriguez a business man as a president in 1998
  • The Court ruled the proposals unconstitutional in April 2000
  • Elections in 2010 installed Laura Chinchilla as Costa Ricas best female president

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FUN FACTS

  • Costa Recons take there religion 100% seriously

The flag of Costa Rica, was adopted on October 21, 1964, the flag has five horizontal stripes of red, white, and blue.The blue in the flag represents the sky. The white represents clear thinking, happiness, wisdom, power, and the beauty of the sky.Finally, red represents the warmth of the Costa Rican people, their love for life, their blood given for freedom, and their generous ways

Just a little bit smaller than West Virginia

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