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  2. Calle de la Amargura - Wikipedia

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    Calle de la Amargura. The Calle de la Amargura ("Bitterness Street") is a four-block-long street located in San Pedro district, Montes de Oca canton, and is one of the best-known zones near San José city. La Calle, as it is often called, is very close to the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and other important higher education centers.

  3. Key Largo (bar) - Wikipedia

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    Key Largo Bar. The Key Largo is a famous cultural center place in San José, Costa Rica where multiple cultural and artistic activities are carried out for the whole family, it has a restaurant, cafeteria, gardens and spaces for the development of events, fairs and more... The Cultural Center is located in a central area of San José, and is ...

  4. Prostitution in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Jacó and San José are two of Costa Rica's most prominent sex-tourism locations. Money made by prostitutes is enough to keep the majority of Jacó's businesses open during the off season, as it provides a significant economic supplement. [32] Americans are the majority of Costa Rica's sex tourists, composing 80% of the total number of tourists ...

  5. List of red-light districts - Wikipedia

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    The Downtown Eastside is the sex trades final destination of city displacement over several years. In 2003, a large number of sex workers went missing and/or were murdered. Many of these were tied to serial killer Robert Pickton, and were the largest contributor to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) cases over the years ...

  6. San José, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    San José (Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of San José Province. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity ...

  7. Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica) - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica (Spanish: Gran Área Metropolitana, GAM) is the largest urban agglomeration in the country, comprising areas of high population density surrounding the capital, San José, which geographically corresponds to the Central Valley and extended to include the Guarco Valley, where some of the cantons of the Cartago province are located.

  8. Paseo de los Estudiantes - Wikipedia

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    Paseo de los Estudiantes. Paseo de los Estudiantes (" Students Walkway " in English) is an urban area in San José, Costa Rica, the capital of Costa Rica. The area began to develop as a commercial center during the last decades of the twentieth century, basically with the advent of supermarkets, shops and some restaurants whose owners are Chinese.

  9. Gran Hotel (Costa Rica) - Wikipedia

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    The Gran Hotel is a hotel in San José, Costa Rica. It was built in 1930 and is a historic monument in the city. Its address is Central and Second Avenue between First and Third Streets. It's located next to the National Theater [1] and the Plaza de la Cultura, under which lies the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum. There is a casino in the lobby and a ...