The islands in the Gulf of Nicoya with a penultimate link in a chain of small nations that together comprise the isthmus of Central America. Along with the Caribbean and the Pacific, Costa Rica ranks first in the Happy Planet Index and is the “greenest” country in the world. It is the only Latin American country included in the list of the world’s 22 older democracies Costa Rica was discovered by Christopher Columbus who was The first European to explore Costa Rica in 1502, on Columbus’s fourth and final voyage to the New World.

Of all the Spanish colonies, Costa Rica was the least influence as a colony. It was initially a tough and unpopular place to settle, as the High Mountains and swampy lowlands had impeded the migration of the advanced cultures. Archaeologists now know that civilization dates back 10,000 years in Costa Rica for thousands of years before the arrival of Columbus, and evidence of human occupation in the region.

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Ruins of a large, ancient city complete with aqueducts were recently found east of San Jose, and some marvelously sophisticated gold and jade work was being wrought in the southwest as far back as 1,000 years ago. Both coastlines of Costa Rica have an abundance of beaches 300 miles offshore, though the Pacific strands are generally both less developed , less spacious ,and an uninhabited island that boasts a veritable maritime menagerie.The is a Costa Rican national park as it have set aside one quarter of their land as protected areas and national parks .it hosts a ring of salty treasures in its underwater escapes. On shore its a wild land of lush jungles and untouched waterfalls, an astonishing five percent of the world’s biodiversity, including more than 800 species of ferns, 1,000 of orchids, 2,000 kinds of trees, and 200 species of mammals. making it both a terrestrial and submarine paradise of unadulterated naturalism. The is a Costa Rican national park as it have set aside one quarter of their land as protected areas and national parks .it hosts a ring of salty treasures in its underwater escapes. On shore its a wild land of lush jungles and untouched waterfalls, an astonishing five percent of the world’s biodiversity, including more than 800 species of ferns, 1,000 of orchids, 2,000 kinds of trees, and 200 species of mammals. making it both a terrestrial and submarine paradise of unadulterated naturalism. Costa Rica is not “that tropical island country” But it does have, as part of its national territory, a number of significant tropical islands–and dozens of lesser ones.

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