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Porfirio Brenes Castro School in San Vicente. The local school for boys and girls, Escuela Porfirio Brenes Castro, was founded in 1891.It is on the south side of Parque de Moravia at the intersection of Calle 63 and Avenida 63.
An Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that was, at one time, responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP (from Costa Rica) Image 40 The University of Costa Rica is the largest university in the country and one of the most recognizable across Central America .
Antología crítica de la poesía de Costa Rica. San José, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 1993. Monge, Carlos Francisco. El vanguardismo literario en Costa Rica, Editorial Universidad Nacional, 2005. Ovares, Flora, Margarita Rojas, María Elena Carballo y Carlos Santander. La casa paterna. Escritura y nación en Costa Rica. San José ...
Nuevo Arenal is a town located in the Arenal district of Tilarán Canton in the Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. It is located on the north shore of Lake Arenal. The former village of Arenal near the La Fortuna area was inundated in 1978 with the formation of the artificial Lake Arenal. Nuevo Arenal was a government project to relocate the ...
"La Fortuna" is Spanish for "The Fortune", and aptly named due its ample supply of tourist attractions and extremely fertile lands. Although there is a common myth that the town got its name due to its sparing from the Arenal Volcano's eruptions, the town actually got its name before the latest eruption cycle and was named for the fertile lands ("The Fortune") where it is located.
Declared a City of National Archeological Interest, this town is the entryway to the Costa Rican Caribbean. Turrialba’s outskirts contain appealing rural communities such as Santa Cruz, where homemade Turrialba cheese is produced, La Suiza and Aquiares, as well as the rapids of the Reventazón and Pacuare rivers."
They are managed by the Correos de Costa Rica, a government-controlled institution that provides postal service in the country. [ 1 ] The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces , the second and third refer to a specific canton in the aforementioned province, and the fourth and fifth represent a specific district within the canton.
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. [4] As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party candidate, Nelson Martín Umaña Quirós, was elected mayor of the canton with 41.92% of the votes, with Tania Granados Borbón and Marianela Arias Elizondo as first and second vice mayors, respectively.