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Archaeology of the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica. Cambridge: Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 51. ISBN 0-00-000000-0. Stone, Doris (1943). "Preliminary investigation of the flood plain of the Río Grande de Térraba, Costa Rica". American Antiquity. 9 (1): 74– 88. doi:10.2307/275453. JSTOR 275453. S2CID 163632144.
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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.
List of volcanoes in Costa Rica, which includes the crater lakes listed.; Haberyan, K.A.; Horn, S.P. (1999). "Chemical and physical characteristics of seven volcanic lakes in Costa Rica".
La Fortuna Waterfall (Spanish for "the fortune") is in central Costa Rica, in the Alajuela Province.In Spanish, it is known as Catarata Fortuna.The waterfall drops about 70−75 meters and is at the base of the dormant Chato volcano, about 5.5 km outside of the town of La Fortuna, near the Arenal Volcano.
The architecture of Costa Rica includes remains from the pre-Columbian Era, all the way to modern buildings that form part of the nation's contemporary infrastructure. The nation encompasses an array of historical buildings from both the pre-colonial era and post-colonial era, such as Guayabo and the Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels.
The tectonics of Costa Rica are more complicated because the Cocos Plate subdivided into two blocks separated by the Costa Rica Fracture Zone (running northeast onto land), with the northern block being subducted. Submarine canyons have been used to infer the path of the Panama Fracture Zone running along the coast creating wrench faults.