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Sarchí is Costa Rica's most famous crafts center. The town offers more than 200 stores and small family-operated woodworking factories producing wooden bowls and other tableware, fold-up rocking chairs of wood and leather, and a wide variety of kitschy items.
Fuente de la Hispanidad (The Fountain of Hispanity), a large fountain in a major roundabout built in the mid-80s that focuses on Costa Rica's cultural heritage. It is a major landmark in the area. Mall San Pedro, a shopping center built in the mid-90s, contains tattoo parlors, a movie theater, a food court, video game shops, and clothing stores.
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.
Costa Rica ratified the convention on 23 August 1977. [3] It has four World Heritage Sites and one site on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Costa Rica listed was the Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park, in 1983. In 1990, the site was expanded to include the sites across the border in Panama.
Carrión is a chain of department stores in Central America. The chain is owned by Grupo Roble , itself part of Grupo Poma. It originated in La Ceiba, Honduras in 1970 [1] where it opened under the name Bazar Carrión. It opened in Costa Rica in 2000, in Honduras in 2003, in Nicaragua in 2004, and in Guatemala in 2005. [2]
Museo de Numismática (Costa Rica) (Numismatic Museum) Museo de Zoología - Escuela de Biología (Zoology Museum), University of Costa Rica Museo del Colegio Superior de Señoritas (Women's Education and History Museum), Colegio Superior de Señoritas [ es ]
The Cultural Properties of Costa Rica (Patrimonio Cultural de Costa Rica) refer to those tangible and intangible cultural properties that by decree has been awarded the distinction of being part of the cultural heritage of Costa Rica. [1]
Santa Ana (Spanish: Cantón de Santa Ana) is the ninth canton in the San José province of Costa Rica. [2] [3] It is located in the Central Valley.It borders with the Alajuela canton to the north, the Mora canton to the south and west, the Escazú canton to the east, as well as the Belén canton to the north east. [4]