Costa Rica is a country in Central America. In the north it borders Nicaragua and in the south Panamá. To the west, there is the Pacific Ocean and to the east, the Caribbean Sea.

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Costa Rica is Spanish for rich coast. As such, one can expect to find this place to be the ideal tropical paradise. A native song is that the Virgin Mary came down to Costa Rica and never went back to Heaven.

Costa Rica has bewilderingly diverse landscapes, flora, and fauna—more so than any other place on Earth. From rain forests, to dry tropical and temperate forests, to volcanoes, to Carribean and Pacific beaches, to high mountains, and marshy lowlands.