As the crow flies, San Jose, Costa Rica is 4842 kilometers from San Jose, California. San Jose, C.R lies at 9 degrees north of the equator. San Jose, CA is N37 degrees. (Waikiki is N21 degrees.) San Jose, C.R. was founded in 1737 more than 200 years after Columbus came ashore in Central America. San Jose, CA was founded just forty years later in 1777. San Jose, Costa Rica seems very different from San Jose, California. One third of Costa Rica’s population lives within this metropolitan region. The population of San Jose itself is less than 350 thousand whereas San Jose, CA is just under one million. However, here you can see the people. There are hundreds of people milling about especially on Avenida (Avenue) Central and Calle (Street) Cero (Zero) which have been converted to
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