Costa Ricans Love Liberty,Peace, and Independance Why do Costa Ricans love liberty, peace , and personal independence? Christopher Columbus arrived on the Atlantic Coast of Costa in 1502 at the present town of Limon. He found very little gold in this small mountainous country. Therefore, few people from Spain came to settle here. By […]
Some More Costa Rica History: Revolutions A Plurp of Costa Rica’s History Costa Rica today is a social democracy with presidential elections held every four years. The present constitution was adopted in 1949, and provides for a set of checks and balances. At that time the military was abolished and a civil police force […]
Brief history of Costa Rica : COSTA RICA’S FIRST PEOPLE. Within these soaring mountains and dense mystical rain forests lived small non unified groups of Indians with diverse language and culture. They hunted and fished, and lived off the land by cultivating corn and yucca. They were skilled in the art of ceramics, metal work,weaving, […]