National Park, Anyone?

This is a huge map of Costa Rica found at INBIOparque, and the blue rectangles indicate the location of a national park. As you can see, there a ton of national parks in Costa Rica now, though there were none before a Costa Rican student did his Master's thesis on the National Park System in the U.S. at a school in Tennessee. This document formed the basis of the Park system in Costa Rica, now famous for preserving and cataloguing its biodiversity.

Home Making

June 27th 2007
So after traveling around as much of the country as we could stand for a month (mid-November to mid-December) while toting our two high-maintenance pieces of luggage, we settled back in Heredia. We chose Heredia primarily for the cooler temperatures (about 70 degrees in the morning and almost always sunny, rising in the afternoon to the mid-80’s , then cooling again with the afternoon rain) and ... read more

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Costa Rica is a Central American success story: since the late 19th century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic development. Although still a largely agricultural country, it has expanded its economy to include strong techn... ... read more

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