Costa+Rica

code By:Pierce Kraft **
 * Country Name: Costa Rica

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 * Climate: Costa Rica had many terrain including mountains and beaches. The weather conditions change rapidly. In the mountains it is cold in the morning and in the afternoon but in the middle of the day it can get warm.

Geography: Costa Rica has 1,290 km of coastline (212 km on the Caribbean coast and 1,016 km on the Pacific). Costa Rica has a lot of mountains and many terrains. It border’s both the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean; it also borders panama and Nicaragua. **
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History: The Europeans first came to Costa Rica in 1502. It was found as Christopher Columbus came to the new world and Indian’s native to Costa Rica came to the boat and greeted them warmly. Later they came across a man of the name Gonzalez Davila to name the country Costa Rica, which translated means rich coast. Costa Rica eliminated there army so that they could prevent another civil war and to make treaties so that the other army’s would trust them and show no fear while making treaties knowing that they had no military force that could attack them. **
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Economy: In Costa Rica the currency they use is called colon. Two things that Costa Rica exports are bananas and coffee. They are harvested in Costa Rica and are shipped to the USA. **
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Cultural information: I went to Costa Rica and I went we went to Monteverdi. It is a large attraction for tourists and in Monte Verde many museums have an impact the number of visitors. A big museum in Monteverdi is the //Museo de Rana.// It is a museum that display’s types of frogs, the ones that were most interesting to me were the poison dart frogs that are native to Costa Rica. **
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Interesting Facts: In Costa Rica they have an active volcano. They have no army. It has 5 distinct ecosystems: cloud forests, rain forests, dry pacific forest, paramo, and coral reefs. **
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Spanish Sentences: Costa Rica es un lugar con muchas montañas. Costa Rica tiene un volcán activo. Es el hogar de muchos tipos de ranas con veneno. **
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====Sources used for research:  Wikipedia. "Costa Rica." __wikipedia__. 9 Dec. 2008 . ====

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