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Location of Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 4.5 million, of whom nearly a quarter live in the metropolitan area of the capital ...
Former names. Telecentro Canal 6 (1965-1995) Availability. Terrestrial. Digital VHF. Channel 6.1. Canal 6 (previously known as Telecentro) is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Repretel. It is the flagship TV station of the media group.
Grupo Aldesa is a Costa Rican financial services consulting firm. It founded the a brokerage house, Aldesa Brokerage House, and was a founding firm of the Costa Rican national stock exchange. It also created the first investment fund in Costa Rica in 1988. History. The company was founded in 1968.
Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. Family: Trichechidae. Genus: Trichechus. West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus VU.
Four species of monkey are native to the forests of Costa Rica, the Central American squirrel monkey ( Saimiri oerstedii ), the Panamanian white-faced capuchin ( Cebus imitator ), the mantled howler ( Alouatta palliata) and Geoffroy's spider monkey ( Ateles geoffroyi ). [1] [2] All four species are classified scientifically as New World Monkeys ...
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ( Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest.
La Selva Biological Station is located in the Central Conservation Area (91,000 ha) in the north-eastern lowlands of Costa Rica (10°26´ N, 83°59´ W). [3] It encompasses 1,536 ha of classic-lowland tropical rain forest. The Sarapiquí and Puerto Viejo Rivers border the Station to the north, the Peje River to the west, and the Sábalo-Esquina ...
The clay-colored thrush is the national bird of Costa Rica. Although Costa Rica is a small country, it is in the bird-rich neotropical region and has a huge number of species for its area. The official bird list published by the Costa Rican Rare Birds and Records Committee of the Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica (AOCR) contained 948 ...