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  2. Costa Rican jade tradition - Wikipedia

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    Jade bird pendant from Costa Rica. Jadeite is presumed one of the most precious materials of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica. It, along with other similar-looking greenstones (e.g. chalcedony, serpentine, and green jasper) were cherished and worked for years. Jadeite was used to decorate the body and was presumably a symbol of power.

  3. List of World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    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. The most recent site listed was the Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís, in 2014. This is the only cultural site in ...

  4. Churchill (snow cone) - Wikipedia

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    Churchill is a very popular snow cone from Costa Rica. [1] The first Churchills were served in the city of Puntarenas. According to tradition, in the 1940s there was a local businessman named Joaquín Agüilar Ezquivel, aka "Quinico", who used to go to the Paseo de los Turistas; there he purchased a snow cone with different ingredients.

  5. Stone spheres of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. The 10 Most Beautiful Forests Around the World to Add to Your ...

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    Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica. In an almost cinematic act of nature, low-hanging clouds float just above the lush canopy in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, an unique ecosystem known ...

  7. Costa Rican oxcarts - Wikipedia

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    Originally, Spanish colonizers brought the design of the oxcart to Costa Rica as a tool to assist with transportation and work. But, the original design continually broke due to the different Costa Rican topography and climate. [3] So during the 19th century, a new design was built to withstand these. Thus, the Costa Rican oxcart was created ...

  8. Tourism in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Elected in 2007 by Costa Ricans through an open contest organized by a leading newspaper as the "7 natural wonders of Costa Rica", [61] these natural sites are among the most popular destinations by both foreign and domestic tourists, with the exception of Cocos Island, which it is not easily accessed, because it is located in the Pacific Ocean ...

  9. Culture of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish. [6] However, there are also many local indigenous languages in Costa Rica, such as Bribrí. [7] [8] English is the first foreign language and the second most taught language in Costa Rica, followed by French, German, Italian and Chinese. [9]

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