Tag: Costa Rica

Demography The population of Costa Rica is 4,563,538 residents as of June 2011. [12] Of this population, 83.63% are white (including mestizos), 6.72% mulatto, 2.42% Amerindian, 2% Afro-descendant, 0.21% Chinese, 5.95% other or undeclared. The country’s population grows annually at the high rate of 1.4%. This is due to a moderately high birth rate, 18 per 1,000 […]

Geography Costa Rica borders Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and southwest. The Island of the Coco in the Pacific Ocean, belongs to Costa Rica.The coast of the Caribbean Sea, 212 kilometers long, extends from northeast to southeast and with it two sections […]

The government of Costa Rica is made up of three branches, separate and independent from each other, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. The Costa Rican population in general considers the Supreme Electoral Tribunal as the fourth power, however it is not legally recognized as such, but as an autonomous institution. [32] […]

Precolumbian era The first residents of what is now Costa Rica were part of the intermediate area located between the Mayan, Mesoamerican and South American cultural regions. Some historians have included the area currently made up of the southern and Atlantic areas of the country as being of South American influence, due to the presence of groups that speak Chibcha […]

The country’s entry into the 21st century has been marked by a questioning of its democratic and bipartisan model. The legal cases for corruption and illicit enrichment that follow three former presidents: Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría (who were arrested at the end of 2004 during the government of Abel Pacheco, and are awaiting trial) and Jose Maria Figueres […]

The territory of present-day Costa Rica was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and from 1574 it was the southernmost dependency of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, Intendancy of the Neo-Spanish Viceroyalty, until its independence. The remoteness of the power centers of the captaincy general and the lack of agricultural or mining wealth left it to […]

In 1847 José María Castro Madriz came to power, who promoted and encouraged the education of women. He also stood out for the management made to create the first diocese in Costa Rica in 1850. The freedom of the press (for which he is considered the Master of Costa Rican Democracy) and above all, the proclamation, on August 31, 1848, […]

Costa Rica obtains its independence along with the other Central American republics that were part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala. The “Acta de los Nublados”, stipulated the independence of the Spanish government and the continuity of the authorities, [13] the city council of Cartago issued the minutes of October 29, declaring its independence, and, on December 1, a Meeting of Legacies […]