Costa Rica

Need political geography, demographics, landscape/ flora y fauna/biodiversity,

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Flag:
● Very known for flora ● Costa Rica uses both the simple and variant version on their
and funa flag(2 blue bands, 2 white bands, 1 red). Has mountains boats
● One of the richest and stars on their emblem
countries in Latin Political Geography:
America ● Costa Rica=Rich Coast
● Tourism bring in 2 ● Located in the southern part of Central America Isthmus, sharing
billion in revenue for borders with Nicaragua and Panama
CR every year ● Has two coasts, Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean
● Coasts, Caribbean Sea ● Nicaragua & Costa Rica had a disagreement about a small island
and Pacific Ocean off of the San Juan river, had to go to the international court
● >30 main islands ● Seven provinces: capital(San Jose),
● Gained independence ● If you want to send something to Costa Rica means you have to
3 times lactate the houses by using landmarks or numerical position
● 5% of worlds because many houses do not have house numbers.
biodiversity ● Two peninsulas that make the Gulf of Nicoya and Pavon Bay
● Enviromnet is very ● Has over thirty main islands and hundreds of other smaller
important and is ones(Cocos island is a very important one)
protected at all costs ● Cocos island only alloys a few visitation hours because 1. They
● Many protected want to protect the Flora and Fauna, but also because of pirate
national parks, treasure rumors.
extremely low ● Had to gain independence from Spain, Mexican empire, and the
deforestation rates Federal republic of Central America
● Largest wetlands Physical Geography:
● Huge on renewable ● The paper currency have pictures of the wild life that live around
energy the country
● 3 types of white, ● Costa Rica is so biodiverse that is holds 5% of the entire earths
whites, mestizo, and biodiversity
castizo ● 25% are made up of national and protected parks
● Largest demographic is ● They have gotten the deforestation to almost 0%
white ● The Set goal is to become the first carbon-neutral country
● English=very common ● Recreational hunting is banded
● Diplomatically neutral ● Most of Costa Rica 90% renewable energy is 80% hydropower.
● Have manly good ● There are >120 volcanoes all over the country, seven are active
relations with other ● Has tons of tourism, 2 billion dollar year input
countries other than ● The Largest wetland in Central America
little disputes. ● North pacific is the oldest territory in Costa Rica
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Demographics:
● Costa Rican is something you can call the citizens of Costa Rica,
but you can also refer to them as Tico(male), Tica(female)
● Has 4.8 million people
● Have three different “versions” of Caucasians, the whites, the
mestizo, and the castizo which is a mixture of the two.
● Race in CR, 84% the mixtures of the white variations, 7%
 Mullato/half black, 3% Amerindian, 1% black, 5% mixture of
Asians, Middle-easterners, etc.
● Can be considered one of the ‘whiter’ Latin country
● While Spanish is the native language, English is very common
due to the booming tourism, 1 out of 9 can speak english
● “Pura Vida, pure life(used a lot as a greeting)” and “Mae, buddy
or dude ” are mostly only heard in Costa Rica
● Currency can be called Menudo
● Machetes are very common so dont be alarmed
● The Last war CR fought was in 1948, a civil war that ended in the
disbanding of the military, still have police and special for unit
● Military budget was put towards education and health programs
● The highest education and life expectancy in Latin America
● It has diplomatic neutrality, so they can fare well with neighboring
countries
● 1987, former pres. Oscar Arias Sánchez was given the Nobel
Peace Prize for is effort to eliminate armed violence in Central
America
Country Relationships:
● Panama and Costa Rica are very close and have good relations,
are often seen as the same country, have had about the same
relationship towards America
● Nicaragua is its biggest competitor, but still get along
● Serbia's relations are complicated because they don't like that
CR sees Kosovo as a state
● Mexico is like family to Costa Rica
● The US is CR’s largest business partner, gets most of its imports,
exports, tourism, and forgiven investments from the US, even
follow the same checks and balances format.

Summary Costa Rica is one of the richest countries in Latin America. Tourism is
one of their biggest revenues, this is due to their beautiful flora and
fauna. Their environment is very important and protected with almost
zero deforestation and national parks. Most of the demographic is
whites, mestizo, and castizo, though there are still many other races in
Costa Rica. Costa Rica’s closest Allie is the US. They also get along
very well with panama, also Nicaragua but there have been some
disputes.