Costa Rica - Politics

Costa Rica is a democratic republic with a strong system of constitutional checks and balances. It is seen as one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Executive responsibilities are vested in a president, who is the country's center of power. There also are two vice presidents and a 15-member cabinet that includes one of the vice presidents. The president and 57 Legislative Assembly deputies are elected for 4-year terms. A constitutional amendment approved in 1969 limited presidents and deputies to one term, although a deputy may r ...

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 - Date September 15, 1821 The Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica was the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish its armed forces. Costa Rica - History of Costa Rica. In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of the Intermediate Area ...

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Costa Rica is a democratic republic with a strong constitution. It is seen as one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Executive responsibilities are vested in a president, who is the country's center of power. There also are two vice presidents and a 15-member cabinet that includes one of the vice presidents. The president and 57 Legislative Assembly deputies are elected for 4-year terms. A constitutional amendment approved in 1969 limited presidents and deputies to one term, although a deputy may run again for an Assembly seat af ...

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In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of the Intermediate Area located between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions. This has recently been redefined to include the Isthmo-Colombian area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke Chibchan languages. These groups are also believed to have created the Stone spheres of Costa Rica, between 200 BC and AD 1600. The native people of the Mayans and Aztecs were conquered by Spain in the 16th century. Costa Ri ...

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While Costa Rica is not expected to join the tide of new left-leaning governments in Latin America its foreign policy does not always line up with the interests of the U.S. Costa Rica is a member of the International Criminal Court and rejected U.S offers to set up a security training center in the country on the grounds that a country with no army could not harbor a center with possible military purposes. The U.S instead set up such a center in El Salvador, a country alleged t ...

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Costa Rica's economy is mostly based on agriculture (coffee, bananas, pineapples, ornamentals), but in recent times ecotourism,electronics, financial outsourcing and software develoment are rapidly expanding sources of business. Costa Rica's location in the Central American isthmus provides easy access to American markets as it has the same time zone as the central part of the United States and direct ocean access to Europe and Asia. The economy has been expanding for Costa Rica in part because the Government had impl ...

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Costa Rica is home to a rich variety of plants and animals. While the country has only about 0.1% of the world's land mass, it contains 5% of the world's biodiversity. Costa Rica has no military or navy, but an abundance of wildlife; it has been said that the soldiers are the leaf cutter ants, the pilots are the macaws and the navy ships are the whales. Over 25% of Costa Rica is composed of protected forests and reserves. One national park that is internationally renowned among ecologists for its biodiversity (including big cats and tapirs) and where visitors can expect to see an abundan ...

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Main article: Demographics of Costa Rica Costa Rica has a population of 4,016,173 persons (July 2005 est.) In the central part of the country, most people are of European descent or Mestizos (to varying degrees), most of the population today are considered light mestizos largely of Spanish genetic composition. The pure indigenous population today numbers about 29,000, less than one percent of the population. In Guanacaste, most of the population descends from a mix of the Chorotega Indians, Bantu Afri ...

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The locals refer to themselves as tico, maje or mae (sort of "man", actually maje means "dumb") idiom in a very popular and "only with close friends" way, or tica (female). "Tico" comes from the locally popular usage of "tico" diminutive suffixes (eg. 'momentico' instead of 'momentito'). The tico ideal is that of a very friendly, helpful, laid back, unhurried, educated and environmentally aware people, with little worry for deadlines or the "normal" stresses of United States life. Visitors from the United S ...

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Costa Rica consists of seven provinces: Alajuela (central; north of capital San José) Cartago Guanacaste (north-west) Heredia Limón Puntarenas (along most of the Pacific coast, with a large bulge in the south-west and a smaller one at the northern end at both sides of the Golfo de Nicoya, where the homonymous capital is located) San José (C ...

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Costa Rica is located on the Central American isthmus, 10° North of the equator and 84° West of the Prime Meridian. It borders both the Caribbean Sea (to the east) and the North Pacific Ocean (to the west), with a total of 1,290 km (802 mi) of coastline (212km [132 mi] on the Caribbean coast and 1,016 km [631 mi] on the Pacific). Costa Rica also borders Nicaragua to the north (309 km [192 mi] of border) and Panama to the south-southeast (639 km [397 mi] of border). In total, Costa Rica comprises 51,100 km² (19,730 mi²), of which 5 ...

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Costa Rica has a population of 4,016,173 persons (July 2005 est.) In the central part of the country, most people are of European descent but some are also Mestizos (to varying degrees). Because of little intermarriage, most of the population today retain European complexions. The pure indigenous population today numbers about 29,000, less than one percent of the population. In Guanacaste, most of the population descends from a mix of the Chorotega Indians, Bantu Africans and Spaniards. Descendants of black 19th-century Jamaican immigrant wo ...

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Costa Rica is home to a rich variety of plants and animals. While the country has only about 0.1% of the world's land mass, it contains 5% of the world's biodiversity. Costa Rica has no military or navy, but an abundance of wildlife; it has been said that the soldiers are the leaf cutter ants, the pilots are the macaws and the navy ships are the whales. Over 25% of Costa Rica is composed of protected forests and reserves. One national park that is internationally renowned among ecologists for its biodiversity (including big cats and tapirs) and where visitors can expect to see an abundan ...

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Costa Rica is referred to as the "Switzerland of the Americas". In Costa Rica, the locals refer to themselves as tico, maje or mae (sort of "man", actually maje means "dumb") idiom in a very popular and "only with close friends" way, or tica (female). "Tico" comes from the locally popular usage of "tico" diminutive suffixes (eg. 'momentico' instead of 'momentito'). The tico ideal is that of a very friendly, helpful, laid back, unhurried, educated and environmentally aware people, with little worry for deadl ...

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In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of the Intermediate Area located between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions. This has recently been redefined to include the Isthmo-Colombian area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke Chibchan languages. These groups are also believed to have created the Stone spheres of Costa Rica, between 200 BC and AD 1600. The native people of the Mayans and Aztecs were conquered by Spain in the 16th century. Costa Rica was then the southernmost province in the Spanish territory ...

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Costa Rica is located on the Central American isthmus, 10° North of the equator and 84° West of the Prime Meridian. It borders both the Caribbean Sea (to the east) and the North Pacific Ocean (to the west), with a total of 1,290 km (802 mi) of coastline (212km [132 mi] on the Caribbean coast and 1,016 km [631 mi] on the Pacific). Costa Rica also borders Nicaragua to the north (309 km [192 mi] of border) and Panama to the south-southeast (639 km [397 mi] of border). In total, Costa Rica comprises 51,100 km² (19,730 mi²), of which 5 ...

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Costa Rica's economy is mostly based on agriculture (coffee, bananas, pineapples), but in recent times ecotourism and electronics are rapidly expanding sources of business. Costa Rica's location in the Central American isthmus provides easy access to American markets as it has the same time zone as the central part of the United States and direct ocean access to Europe and Asia. The economy has been booming for Costa Rica in part because the Government had implemented a seven year plan of expansion in the high tech in ...

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