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Costa RicaInformation/Travel Guide

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Discover Costa Rica in this map. The most exciting sights, the best hotels, a diverse nightlife, recommended restaurants and more for your Costa Rica vacation. Updated constantly, free and available for desktop/smartphone/tablet.

Costa Rica (; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally meaning "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 4.5 million, of whom nearly a quarter live in the ... (read more on Wikipedia)

Calling code: +506 | Area: 51,100.00 km² | Inception: 1821

MapMap for Costa Rica (59 locations, show in full screen)

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InformationInformation about Costa Rica

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BooksBooks about Costa Rica

These are the current bestselling travel guides for Costa Rica & travel literature about Costa Rica on Amazon.com. Alternatively there are also digital versions of these travel guides available, for Kindle and other devices and Audio versions to listen on the go on Audible:

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Learn SpanishLearn to speak Spanish with language courses for your Costa Rica trip!

The language in Costa Rica is Spanish (abbr. "ES"). For a trip to Costa Rica it can therefore be helpful to use a Spanish language course for easier communication. Greate online courses for Spanish are available on Babbel.com. Apropos, Spanish is also an official language in Equatorial Guinea, Colombia & Cuba!

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Local specialtiesLocal specialties from Costa Rica (total of 6)

Every country and every city/regions offers it's own local delicacies and specialties, which often are enough of a reason on it's own for a trip. For Costa Rica the following delicacies, wines and other premium foods are typicial (more than 17,000 additional specialties are available from Gourmondo):

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