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The UFCO entered Palmar Sur in the 1930s under the name of Companía Bananera de Costa Rica in an effort to avoid antimonopoly legislature. [12] Today there are still agricultural fields throughout the landscape which are owned by co-ops and consist of plantain , banana, and palm plantations.
The Diquis culture (sometimes spelled Diquís) was a pre-Columbian indigenous culture of Costa Rica that flourished from AD 700 to 1530. [1] The word "diquís" means "great waters" or "great river" in the Boruca language. [1] The Diquis formed part of the Greater Chiriqui culture that spanned from southern Costa Rica to western Panama. [2]
The Boruca are a tribe of Southern Pacific Costa Rica, close to the Panama border. The tribe is a composite group, made up of the group that identified as Boruca before the Spanish colonization, as well as many neighbors and former enemies, including the Coto people, Turrucaca, Borucac, Quepos, and the Abubaes.
Twenty-five people have died and dozens more have been hospitalized after drinking tainted liquor in Costa Rica, health officials said Monday. Death toll from tainted alcohol in Costa Rica rises to 25
Nineteen Costa Ricans have died since June from what the country’s Ministry of Health suspects is tainted alcohol. Tainted alcohol believed to be the cause of 19 deaths in Costa Rica Skip to ...
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The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish. [6] However, there are also many local indigenous languages in Costa Rica, such as Bribrí. [7] [8] English is the first foreign language and the second most taught language in Costa Rica, followed by French, German, Italian and Chinese. [9] A creole language called Mekatelyu is also spoken in ...
Costa Rican officials have confirmed another death related to tainted alcohol, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 20.