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Costa Rica (CR) |
| Continent: |
North America |
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| Surface: |
51.100 km ² |
| Inhabitants: |
4.326.500 |
| Capital: |
San Jose |
International banking code (ISO Codes): |
CR |
| Official language: |
Spaniard |
Code: |
+506 |
| Currency: |
Colón |
Number plate: |
CR |
| Routes of Costa Rica: |
535 |
Routes towards Costa Rica: |
653 |
| Preferred airports: |
San Jose (SJO), Rio Frio (RFR), Tamarindo (TNO), Palmar Palmar On (PMZ), Carrillo (RIK), Guapiles (LPG), Liberia (LIR), San Jose - Paved (SYQ), Nosara Beach (NOB), Coto 47 (OTR) |
| Principal cities: |
San Jose, Limón, San Francisco, Alajuela, Liberia, Paraíso, Puntarenas, San Isidro, Curridabat, San Vicente, San Jose, Purral, Turrialba, San Miguel, San Pedro |
| Airline company based in Costa Rica: |
LACSA, Natural Air, Sansa Airlines |
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Tourist guide Costa Rica (North America) |
The Republic of Costa Rica is a country of Central America to the stable political regime. With its neighbors, Nicaragua in north and Panama in the south, it constitutes a natural bridge between North America and South America. The country is a true paradise for the amateurs of beautiful nature: one finds there tropical forests, splendid coasts with broad of the coral reefs, the volcanos and high mountainous solid masses. The coasts on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean present both of beautiful places of bathe. All the territory is favourable with the excursion. There are only the embarrassment of the choice between the savanna of the North-West, the wet forests of Monteverde or the tropical forests of the coast caribéenne.
Geography: on the topological level, Costa Rica lets himself divide into three great areas: the volcanic assembly line of Cordilleras, alluvial grounds of the coast caribéenne and the undulating coast of the Pacific.
Relief and river: the culminating point of the country is Chirripo Grande which reaches an altitude of 3.821 m, follow-up of Turrialba with 3.339 m, L `Irazu with 3.432 m, of Barva with 2.906 m and Poas with 2.704 Mr. the longest river of Costa Rica is the Rio Grande of Terraba which is stretched on 195 km and more the big lake is the artificial lake Arenal which has a surface of 80km ².
Climate and period of voyage advised: Costa Rica presents two quite distinct seasons: the rain season between May and November and December and April, the season dries. During the rain season, the rains fall mainly during the night what softens the temperatures and revives the vegetation.
Official languages and spoken languages: the official language is Spanish. Moreover English and the Creole are included/understood and spoken on all the territory.
Health and vaccinations: generally one advises with the travellers to be made vaccinate against hepatitis has, typhus, the polio, the diphteria and tetanus. To prevent the viral diseases transmitted by the insects and the mosquitos, it is in general enough to cover well and apply products anti-insects. There exists in Costa Rica a considerable risk to contract paludism. This is why it is desirable to consult a doctor before your departure to decide on an effective preventive strategy. The system and the equipment of health are satisfactory only in the big cities and the tourist places. It is advised to contract an insurance travels including/understanding an insurance repatriation for the most serious cases. For more safety and to avoid risks of infection, it is recommended to peel the fruits well and to make cook vegetables before consuming them. Lastly, think of providing you with small limps with pharmacy of voyage.
Conditions of entry on the territory: for one duration of stay lower than 90 days, the French nationals must only be provided with a valid passport. For one higher duration, obtaining a visa near the embassy of Costa Rica is obligatory. The minor travellers must be provided with an individual passport.
For further information concerning vaccinations, the conditions of entry on the territory and safety, you can for example consult the site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Travel and transport: of Paris-Orly (ORY), there do not exist direct flights bound for San Jose (SJO), but of many companies flights with stopovers propose. Iberia (IB) for example proposes flights with a correspondence in Madrid (MAD), Continental Airlines (CO) and Delta Airlines (DLL) propose flights with a stopover in Atlanta (ATL) in New York (NYC) or Houston (HOU). De Lyon-Saint-Exupéry-Satolas (LILY), Air Europa (UX) and Air Make (A7) propose flights with a stopover in Madrid (MAD). From Marseilles (MRS), British Airways (BA), Virgin Atlantic (VS) and Continental Airlines (CO) propose flights with a stopover in London (LGW) and in Newark (EWR). Iberia (IB) and American Airlines (AA) propose flights with a stopover in Madrid (MAD) and in Miami (MIA).
The capital: San Jose shelters 750.000 inhabitants and is known in all the country for its picturesque market on which one can find jewels, objects of pottery, fabrics and, of course, coffee, speciality of world reputation that one can buy in pretty small sachets. Catedral Metropolitano, built in 1871 in orthodoxe Greek style, has a beautiful furnace bridge with the rich person decorations and deserves it also a visit.
Tourist sites and places of bathe: the town of Carthagène, old capital of the country, is located at 20 km in the south-east of San Jose and point of disjunction the most important church of the country. Basilica de Nuestra Senora of Los Angeles receives the every day of very many believers come to collect itself in front of a statue of Negra to which one allots miraculous cures. The “black Madonna” measures approximately 20 cm and is preserved in a gold reliquary placed above the furnace bridge. Every year, on August 2nd, a crowd come from the four corners of the country presses itself to be able to attend the “procession of los milagros”. Some carry wood crosses on their back and on the course, one can buy candles and flowers.
Since 1948, Costa Rica removed her army and reinvested the funds thus released in social and ecological projects, mainly in the installation of national parks. More than 25% of the territory are now natural reserves which offer a good infrastructure for the sports activities and the rest. The national park of Cahuita for example, of a surface of 12 km ², consists of marshes and forests of mangroves which lodge many species of tropical birds, such as toucans, parrots, hummingbirds or hurleurs. To crown the whole, the park is bordered of sand beaches white and end.
But the most beautiful park of the country is without question the park of Corcovado, Amazon forest in miniature whose rainfall is one of most country, which confers an extremely high water content to him and which shelters a fauna and a flora of an extraordinary richness.
For the vulcanologists amateurs, a visit of the national park El Arenal is to be recommended. It includes/understands the lake as well as the volcano homonyms. The volcano is still in activity and one can regularly see on his blanks of the lava running out. At the fallen night, the shone volcano of a red light, which does not fail to make a strong impression on the spectators. Rincon of Vieja makes it possible another to admire a volcanic landscape. It extends on the slopes from the Rincon volcanos from Vieja and Santa Maria in the Cordillera from Gunacaste. The park is traversed splendid footpaths the length which one can observe wells of lava in fusion.
Religion: from the Spanish evangelization and colonization, Costa Rica is very strongly christianized. Nearly 98% of the population are Christian. There exists also a small Bahaï community.
Big cities and possibilities of lodging: San Jose, Puerto Silt, San Francisco, Aljuela, Liberia and Paraiso.
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Flights expensive not preferred towards and of Costa Rica/CR
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