Costa Rica

It is January 19, 2020 and we are off the coast of Costa Rica. I have been looking forward to going to this country for a long time. We were up early for a 7:30 a.m. excursion. It was decided by the Captain and Port Authorities that the seas were too rough and the port too dangerous to enter. So we waved goodbye to Costa Rica and proceeded to Jamaica. I had collected a number of pictures from Costa Rica and have them posted below. They have many colorful birds and frogs, as well as different types of monkeys and sloths.

Costa Rica officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 5 million on a land area of 19,714 square miles. An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around 2 million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. Costa Rica is the most-visited nation in the Central American region, with 2.9 million foreign visitors in 2016, up 10% from 2015.

Its economy, once heavily dependent on agriculture, has diversified to include sectors such as finance, corporate services for foreign companies, pharmaceuticals, and ecotourism.

Costa Rica has a tropical climate year round. There are two seasons. The "summer" or dry season is December to April, and "winter" or rainy season is May to November.

Costa Rica population (83.6% White/Castizo or Mestizo; 6.7% Mulatto; 2.4% Amerindian; 1.1% Black (of African descent); 6.2% Others). In 2011, there were over 104,000 Native American or indigenous inhabitants, representing 2.4% of the population. Most of them live in secluded reservations, distributed among eight ethnic groups: Quitirrisí (in the Central Valley), Matambú or Chorotega (Guanacaste), Maleku (northern Alajuela), Bribri (southern Atlantic), Cabécar (Cordillera de Talamanca), Guaymí (southern Costa Rica, along the Panamá border), Boruca (southern Costa Rica) and Térraba [es] (southern Costa Rica).

Provinces: 1 Alajuela, 2 Cartago, 3 Guanacaste, 4 Heredia, 5 Limón, 6 Puntarenas, 7 San José

Hummingbirds of Costa Rica

Birds of Costa Rica

Sloth

Monkey

Frogs

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