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Lada cars arrived in Costa Rica in the late seventies and became popular in the eighties as one of the few new cars that the middle class could afford. The models included the Niva, 2104 and Samara. Around 200 Ladas still circulate, from a total of 1500 imported from Russia in the '80s.
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.
Siquirres is a district of the Siquirres canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a center of commerce and has most of the services for the area's locals. Toponymy
Source: [1] 1 January – New Year's Day 11 April – Juan Santamaría 17 April – Maundy Thursday 18 April – Good Friday 1 May – Labour Day 25 July – Guanacaste Day 2 August – Lady of the Angels Day
The president of Costa Rica is elected using a modified two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 40% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff is held between the two candidates with most votes. [2]
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2007; they are associated with and identify a unique district. The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces, the 2nd and 3rd refer to the 82 cantons (unique within the province), the 4th and 5th the 488 districts (unique within the canton). [2]
"U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Costa Rica". The Political Graveyard. March 10, 2005; United States Department of State: Background notes on Costa Rica This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Costa Rica. There are currently 38 embassies in San Jos ...