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Costa Rica was a pioneer in this type of tourism, and the country is recognized as one of the few with true ecotourism. [2] While Costa Rica has gained immense popularity for its development of a successful, yet environmentally friendly , ecotourism industry, environmentalists and economists alike debate whether an economy centered on tourism ...
With an average width of 120 km, Costa Rica receives about 170 km 3 from rain and about 75 km 3 finds its way into the rivers and lakes of Costa Rica and yet another 37 km 3 ends up in underground aquifers. The remaining water is lost through evaporation and evapotranspiration. [3] Costa Rica is divided into three major slopes or basins.
DGH Dirección General de Hidrocarburos - General Directorate for Hydrocarbons; IMN Instituto Meteorológico Nacional - National Meteorological Institute; CONAGEBIO Comisión Nacional para la Gestión de la Biodiversidad - National Commission for Biodiversity Management; PMP Parque Marino del Pacífico - Marine Park of the Pacific
The Gulf and its coastline are part of a major tourism project by Costa Rica's government. Among the most popular destinations on the Gulf of Papagayo are Ocotal Beach, Playas del Coco, Playa Hermosa, and Playa Panama. The Papagayo peninsula is the most developed area in the gulf region.
Caño Island (Spanish: Isla del Caño) is a small island and biological reserve in the Bahia de Corcovado (Corcovado Bay) in Osa, Costa Rica. It is on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica, 10 miles (16 km) west of Punta Llorona on Península de Osa. It rises steeply to a flat top of 123 metres (404 ft) in height.
View of INBioparque's lake. The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica.Created at the end of the 1980s, and despite having national status, it is a privately run institution that works closely with various government agencies, universities, business sector and other public and private entities inside and outside of ...
The Osa Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Osa) is a peninsula located in southwestern Costa Rica, in the Puntarenas Province, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Golfo Dulce to the east. The peninsula was formed geologically by a faulting system that extends north into California .
Térraba River (Spanish: Río Grande de Térraba), in the southern Brunca region of Costa Rica, is the largest river in that country. [1] The indigenous Boruca language name is Diquís which means "great river". [2] Its basin is 5,085 square kilometres (1,963 sq mi) and it is 160 kilometres (99 mi) long, covering ten percent of the country.