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The Costa Rica News, daily, in English [1] The Costa Rica Star, online newspaper, in English; Diario Extra, daily, in Spanish; tabloid press; the country's principal newspaper by circulation; La Nación, daily, in Spanish [2] La Prensa Libre, daily, in Spanish; first newspaper founded in the country; La Republica, daily, in Spanish; La Teja ...
The Constitution of Costa Rica states, "For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts." The country consists of 7 provinces (provincias), 84 cantons (cantones), and 489 districts (distritos). [2]
Costa Rica had 2.9 million foreign visitors in 2016, up 10% from 2015. [87] In 2015, the tourism sector was responsible for 5.8% of the country's GDP, or $3.4 billion. [88] In 2016, the highest number of tourists came from the United States, with 1,000,000 visitors, followed by Europe with 434,884 arrivals. [89]
According to the Political Constitution of Costa Rica of 1949, in article 168, [1] the territorial division of Costa Rica is organized by law into three types of subnational entity: For the purposes of the Public Administration, the national territory is divided into provinces, these in cantons and cantons in districts. Costa Rica is divided into:
San José, Costa Rica: Website: larepublica.net: La República (English: The Republic) is a national daily newspaper in Costa Rica published in San Jos ...
Alajuela (Spanish pronunciation:) is a province of Costa Rica.It is located in the north-central part of the country, bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east, San José to the south, Puntarenas to the southwest and Guanacaste to the west.
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2007; they are associated with and identify a unique district. The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces, the 2nd and 3rd refer to the 82 cantons (unique within the province), the 4th and 5th the 488 districts (unique within the canton). [2]
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. [6] As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party candidate, Patricia Mayela Porras Segura, was elected mayor of the canton with 23.75% of the votes, with Carlos Alberto Azofeifa Aguilar and Jesús Benito Morales Calderón as first and second vice mayors ...