X-Nico

66 unusual facts about Costa Rica


Academic grading in Costa Rica

Academic grading in Costa Rica works on a 100 point scale (and sometimes in an analog 10 point scale).

Acromyrmex echinatior

In Costa Rica this species prefers open dry habitats such as urban areas around San Jose and seasonally dry habitats of Guanacaste Province.

Ad Astra Rocket Company

The facility is located approximately 10 km west of the city of Liberia, capital of the province of Guanacaste, on the campus of EARTH University.

Agua Imara AS

The headquarters is located in Oslo and regional branch offices have been established in San José, Costa Rica and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Allegro Papagayo

The resort is 30 minutes from the airport in the closest major city of Liberia.

Amor Artificial

Amor Artificial (English: Artificial Love) is the 6th studio album made by Costa Rican rock band, "Evolución".

Bernardo Rodríguez y Alfaro

In October 1821 he was appointed representative of the City Council of Barva on the Board of Legacy of the councils which met at Cartago from October 25–26, 1821 to discuss the independence of Costa Rica from Spain.

Born in Heredia, Costa Rica, on August 20, 1781, he married on June 17, 1804 in Barva.

Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Research

The Caño Palma Biological Station is about five miles (18 km) north of Tortuguero, Costa Rica on Costa Rica’s north-east coast and is located inside the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge.

Carlos Salazar Herrera

Carlos Salazar Herrera (1906–1982) was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school.

Copa Centroamericana

The most recent championship, hosted by Costa Rica, was won by the host nation who beat Honduras 1–0 at the final in San José.

Costa Rica Open

The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near Santa Ana.

Costa Rican Central Valley

Because of the agglomeration of population, the valley is the center of commerce, industry and service activities, just helped by ports on both coasts, and by Liberia in Guanacaste (which has the other international airport besides Juan Santamaría Airport in Alajuela) that have similar economic movement.

The Central Valley is commonly considered to extend from the city of San Ramón in Alajuela in the west, to the city of Paraíso in Cartago in the east.

Costa Rican Civil War

In Cartago, Costa Rica's second-largest city located only twelve miles from the capital, Figueres' forces met some considerable military opposition; however, the limited forces and supplies of the governmental forces quickly ran out, and Cartago fell into the hands of Figueres on April 12.

The day after the fall of Cartago, Picado—low on supplies and without any other source of support—sent a letter to Mora and National Republican leader, and former President Calderón stating that "the attempt to hold San José would be futile and catastrophic."

Costa Rican Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Its original constituent members were five churches in metropolitan San José that separated from the Association of Biblical Churches in Costa Rica (AIBC).

Debi Nova

Deborah Nowalski Kader, better known by her stage name Debi Nova, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and dancer from Escazú, Costa Rica who resides in Los Angeles, California.

Diermissen

Julius Friedrich Max Diermissen (*07.01.1870 Hamburg- ✝ 28.03.1927 San José, Costa Rica, German vice-consul in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, from 1894-1902, and U.S. consular agent in the same port from 1894-1901.

Earth Charter Initiative

The Secretariat is composed by a very small staff, and it is based at the University for Peace campus in San José, Costa Rica.

El Cielo Rojo

El Cielo Rojo is a 2008 independent film from Costa Rica.

Escats

Para que estés... en el Concierto - Recorded Live in San José, Costa Rica

Festival Siembra y Lucha

Festival Siembra y Lucha is an open air metal festival held annually in San José, Costa Rica since 2012.

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

In 2005, FIMRC established a clinic in San Felipe, Alajuelita (approximately 5 km outside San José).

German School New York

In addition, the school shares ties with the Alexander von Humboldt German International School of Montréal, Canada, the German School Washington, D.C. and the Colegio Humboldt in San José, Costa Rica, allowing numerous programs between schools.

Grecia

Grecia, Costa Rica, its capital city located in the first district (Distrito de Grecia)

Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica

Also, people meet monthly, generally, in places like Cafes, in San Pedro near University of Costa Rica.

Guanacaste Province

The combination of beaches like Playas del Coco, Playa Tamarindo, and the sunny dry season that coincides with the winter months in northern latitudes have made tourism a key economic activity.

Heriberto Quiros

Heriberto Quiros Linton (born 26 July 1972 in Cartago) is a former Costa Rican football player who last played for AD Carmelita in the Costa Rican Primera División.

International human rights law

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Isla Damas

Boat and kayak tours through the island's estuaries are popular excursions with tourists staying in Quepos, Manuel Antonio National Park, or Jacó.

Isthmo-Colombian Area

Research at sites such as Rivas, Costa Rica helps to document the configurations of large settlements in the centuries prior to the Spanish Conquest.

Jermaine Beckford

He then got his second cap four days later in the 2–0 defeat against Costa Rica at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José.

John C. Caldwell

He then entered the diplomatic service as the U.S. Consul in Valparaíso, Chile, from 1869 to 1874; U.S. Minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1874 to 1882; U.S. Consul to San José, Costa Rica, 1897 to 1909.

Jorge Hine Saborío

He was born in San Ramón, Costa Rica to Luis Hine Ramírez and Enriqueta Saborío Iglesias.

He married Ana María García Bottino, the daughter of Vespancio García Cuervo and Colomba Bottino Capiro, on June 17, 1904 in San José.

Jorge Volio Jiménez

Jorge Volio was born August 26, 1882 in Cartago, Costa Rica to Carlos Volio Llorente and Matilde Jiménez Oreamuno.

José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios

As Sergeant Major, Lacayo endured a very difficult period in the area of Cartago near the Salto river, on the Costa Rican border of Nicoya and Nicaragua.

José Carlos Lozano Rendón

He has presented on his research in conferences in Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, the United States, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

Juan Fernando Echeverría

He was born in Cartago, Costa Rica, to Pedro José de Alvarado y Baeza, the president of the provisional autonomous government from 1821 to 1822; and Concepción Echeverría y Arleguí.

Julian Feoli-Gudino

Julian Feoli-Gudino (born June 22, 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Canadian football wide receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

Lankester Botanical Garden

The Lankester Botanical Gardens are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica.

Lola Castegnaro

She was born in San José, Costa Rica, and studied music with her father, Italian-born composer Alvise Castegnaro.

Manuel Argüello Mora

Manuel Argüello Mora was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1834.

Manuel de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno

He collaborated with Monsignor Victor Sanabria Martínez, second Archbishop of San José, Costa Rica in his work "Genealogy of Cartago from 1650 until 1850", managing to prove a profound knowledge of the collection of protocols of the National Archive of Costa Rica, and contributing important elements to the understanding of the studied lineage in said work.

Marco Antonio Rigau

Rigau has also studied at the Instituto Interamericano de Estudios Políticos in San José, Costa Rica, Harvard University Law School, and New York University Law School.

Mauricio Solís

Mauricio Solís Mora (born 13 December 1972 in Heredia) is a former Costa Rican professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.

Melodious Blackbird

Prior to 1989 there was only one Costa Rican record, but it is now easily seen at least as far south as San José, and it is expected to colonise Panama.

Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics

After the second biennial meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 1994 at San José, Costa Rica, several professionals in the region became interested in creating a branch of this organization in their own countries to respond to the increasing development and worsening of social-environmental conflicts by the conventional-economics-based policies.

Michael Umaña

Míchael Umaña Corrales (born July 16, 1982 in Santa Ana) is a Costa Rican footballer who currently plays for Deportivo Saprissa.

Oscar Núñez Oliva

Oscar Núñez Oliva (born May 21, 1955 in San José) is a Costa Rican journalist and author.

Parque en el Espacio

The album was produced by ‘Automata’ in San José, Costa Rica and later masterized by World Mastering Studios in England.

Plasma propulsion engine

Some of the components and "Plasma Shoots" experiments are tested in a laboratory settled in Liberia, Costa Rica.

Pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica

More recent ones (1500–300 BC) have been discovered in the Turrialba Valley, the coastal region of Gandoca, the northern plains, Sarapiquí Basin, Barva, Herradura, the Térraba River Basin, the Coto Colorado River Basin and Isla del Caño.

Ranjit Singh Gujjar

As a table tennis player, Gujjar has represented India at two international tournaments: the August 2010 Copa Costa Rica International Table Tennis Tournament (San José, Costa Rica), and the December 2010 Asian Para Games (Guangzhou, China).

Repertorio Americano

Repertorio Americano was a cultural magazine published in San José, Costa Rica by Joaquín García Monge, on and off between 1919 and 1958.

Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park

The nearest city is Liberia to the south of the park, and there are two facilities at the park for visitors information and guides the Santa Maria and Pailas stations which are both on the southern side of the park.

Robert Henry Clarence

After his downfall, he was rescued by a British warship that took him into exile together with 200 refugees to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, and later to Jamaica.

Santiago Polanco-Abreu

He was one of the founders of the Institute for Democratic Studies in San José, Costa Rica.

Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis

The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates) and five administrative employees as hostages.

Tapantí National Park

Tapantí National Park, sometimes called Orosí National Park, is a National Park in the Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago.

Toyota Prius c

Since October 2012, Prius c owners are exempted from the restrictions imposed by the road space rationing implemented by plate number to restrict access to downtown San José, the country's capital.

United World College of Costa Rica

The United World College Costa Rica (UWC Costa Rica) (Spanish - Colegio del Mundo Unido Costa Rica), located in the Santa Ana suburb of San José, is the 11th United World College and the first to offer instruction in both English and Spanish.

Virgen de los Angeles

La Negrita now resides on a gold, jewel-studded platform at the main altar in the Nuestra Señora de los Angeles Basilica in Cartago.

William More Gabb

In 1873 the government of Costa Rica engaged Gabb to perform a survey of the geography, geology and resources in the little-known Talamanca Region.

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles

Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles (or W&W) (Chinese 時空五行-風水大戰) is an Independent developed commercial videogame developed by Yuan Works, a company based in Costa Rica.


Arturo Kinch

Arturo Kinch (born 15 April 1956) is a customer service representative for United Airlines who has won fame for his inspiring performances as Costa Rica's only skier in Winter Olympic Games history, most recently as a 49-year-old cross-country skier in the 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games.

Azuero spider monkey

The Azuero subspecies is one of three types of spider monkeys in Panama; Ateles geoffroyi panamensis with a range spanning from Costa Rica to Darién excluding the Azuero, Ateles geoffroyi fusciceps, with a range spanning Panamá and Colón provinces, and Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis, the Azuero spider monkey, whose range encompasses only the Azuero Peninsula.

Bagaces District

Bagaces District is a district in Bagaces Canton, in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Big Four Bridge

In 1988 Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica, contacted Louisville mayor Jerry Abramson to inquire about buying the bridge to dismantle it and reassemble in Costa Rica, as he believed it would be cheaper to import the bridge than build a new one.

Black-crowned Central American squirrel monkey

Its range is restricted to the Pacific coast of western Panama to the western portion of the Chiriquí Province and of southern Costa Rica, south of the Rio Grande de Terraba, including the Osa Peninsula.

Bothriechis lateralis

Found in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, including the Cordillera de Tilarán, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca to the provinces of Chiriquí Province and Veraguas.

Cosmopterix gomezpompai

The species is dedicated to Dr. Arturo Gómez-Pompa, University of California, Riverside, United States, who is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Instituto National de Biodiversidad (INBio), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.

Curtin Winsor, Jr.

From 1983 to 1985, he served as the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, advising the Central American government on economic policy.

Diego Estrada

Diego Alonso Estrada Valverde (born 25 May 1989 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.

El Salvador national cricket team

The second Easter Cup in December that year was hosted by El Salvador and saw Belize, Mexico and Costa Rica also take part.

Esteban Alvarado

Esteban Alvarado Brown (born 28 April 1989 in Siquirres, Limón) is a Costa Rican football goalkeeper.

Geography of the Cayman Islands

The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.

Gilberto Martínez

Gilberto Martínez Vidal (born October 1, 1979 in Golfito, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.

Golfo-Dulce Anole

The Golfo-Dulce Anole or Many-scaled Anole, Norops polylepis (formerly "Anolis polylepis"), is a lizard endemic to the Gulf of Dulce area of Costa Rica.

Harrya atriceps

Described as new to science in 2012, it is found in the Cordillera Talamanca of Costa Rica, where it grows in a mycorrhizal association with the oak species Quercus copeyensis and Quercus seemannii.

Iguanita Wildlife Refuge

The coastal zones in Guanacaste are recently the highest levels of development and construction in Costa Rica.

Jacinta Balbela

After her retirement from the courts, she served as the co-director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) in San José, Costa Rica.

Jacinta Escudos

Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as La Nación (Costa Rica), La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador), and El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua).

Joaquín García Monge

He was the director of Costa Rica's Biblioteca Nacional from 1920 to 1936 and had considerable influence over the education system of the country during his lifetime.

José Carlos Chaves

José Carlos Chávez Innecken (born 3 September 1958 in Atenas) is a former Costa Rican football player who played for LD Alajuelense.

José María Córdova International Airport

International traffic departs from JMC towards destinations in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Curaçao and Spain, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.

José Miguel Cubero

José Miguel Cubero Loría (born 14 February 1987 in Sarchí) is a Costa Rican football player, currently playing for C.S. Herediano in Primera División de Costa Rica, and for the Costa Rica national football team.

Mariana Alandia

Further studies with Miguel Angel Quesada in Costa Rica, and later chamber music with Ramiro Soriano Arce at the National Conservatory of Music in La Paz, Bolivia, where she completed a piano degree.

Miss Colombia 2008

The former panel of judges was composed by Olga Sinclair (Panama), Pablo Jiménez Burillo (Spain), Sylvia Loria (Costa Rica), Thomas P. Murray (United States), Giovanni Scutaro (Venezuela).

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

Poor man's tropheus

The Poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus is a species of cichlid native to Central America where it can be found in Lake Xiloa, Lake Managua, Lake Masaya and Lake Nicaragua and in riverine habitats on the Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.

Republica United

Republica United is currently working on receiving donations to help schools in Costa Rica, and they look forward to helping Nicaragua and other parts of Central America.

Rónald Gómez

Rónald Gómez Gómez (born 24 January 1975 in Puntarenas) is a retired Costa Rican football forward

San Isidro de El General

San Isidro de El General is the name of the first district of the canton of Pérez Zeledón, in the southern part of the province of San José in Costa Rica, as well as the name of said district's main city.

Sarchi Bilingual Experimental High School

Sarchí Bilingual Experimental High School is a bilingual (English-Spanish) high school in Sarchí, Costa Rica.

Sharkwater

Filmed in high definition video, Sharkwater explores the densest shark populations in the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption of the shark-hunting industry in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Sphaeroseius ecitophilus

Mites of the genus Sphaeroseius have only been found in association with ecitonine army ants (Neivamyrmex, Labidus) in Brazil, Argentina, and possibly Costa Rica.

Spondias purpurea

The "Pacto del Jocote", peace treaty was signed in Costa Rica on April 11, 1842 under a Jocote tree in Alajuela between Francisco Morazan and Vicente Villaseñor overturning the government of Braulio Carrillo.

The Choral Project

They have performed in Washington D.C.'s National Cathedral, San Francisco's Mission Dolores Basilica, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, Santa Cruz' Holy Cross Church, and multiple venues in England, Scotland, Wales, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

The Domino Principle

Following his escape with cellmate Spiventa (Mickey Rooney)—whom the organization immediately kills—Tucker flies to Puntarenas, Costa Rica where he is reunited with his wife Ellie (Candice Bergen).

Tithraustes snyderi

It is found in cloud-forest habitats within La Amistad, an international park extending from south-central Costa Rica into the Chiriqui Province of Panama.

Ulmus mexicana

In Costa Rica the Mexican Elm is known as Tirrá; the neighbourhood (district) of Tirrases in Curridabat, San José, takes its name from the tree.

Walter Kissling

Walter Kissling was born to Walter Kissling Rickli and Adela Gam Secen in Limón, Costa Rica on April 25, 1931.