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The Costa Rica News, daily, in English [1] 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 Teja, daily, in Spanish; The Tico Times, weekly, in English
La Nación is a Costa Rican newspaper. It is published in San José, Costa Rica . The newspaper is a general purpose newspaper, and circulates daily all year long, except on three Costa Rican holidays, Good Friday and the following Saturday, and the day after the New Year's Day .
This is a list of mass media in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index (2021 edition). This ranking is prepared by the freedom of information organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and was published on April 20, 2021. In addition, at the continental level, Costa Rica is in first place among the American ...
Limón (Spanish pronunciation:), also known as Puerto Limón, is the capital city of both the province and canton of the same name. One of Costa Rica's seven "middle cities" (i.e., main cities outside of San José's Greater Metropolitan Area), [1] [2] Limón has a population of 71,514, which made it, as of 2022, the most-populous city in the country outside of the Greater Metropolitan Area and ...
Limón (Spanish pronunciation:) is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica.The province covers an area of 9,189 km 2, and has a population of 386,862. [2]The majority of its territory is situated in the country's Caribbean lowlands, though the southwestern portion houses part of an extensive mountain range known as the Cordillera de Talamanca.
Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality. It is Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port, together with its more modern twin port town just to the southwest, Santo Tomás de Castilla. As of the 2018 census, the population of Puerto Barrios was 100,593.
Osa has an area of 1,930.24 km 2 [4] and a mean elevation of 24 metres. [2]The canton begins at the Barú River near Dominical on the central Pacific coast. It continues as a narrow strip of land southward to include the area around Palmar and Sierpe, finally widening to take in the entire neck and upper portion of the Osa Peninsula, where significant gold mining operations are located.
The name Puntarenas comes from a portmanteau of punta and arenas, which means "point" and "sands", respectively.In English this would translate roughly to "Sand Point". The name is first referenced by the arrival in February 1720 of the pirate John Clipperton to the area, which recorded in his journals to have arrived to a "Punta de Arena", referring to the needle-like area on which the city ...