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This makes Costa Rica's beaches some of the most visited in the world. ||
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 * || [[image:500px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica_(state).svg.png width="349" height="209" caption="500px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica_(state).svg.png"]] || Hello, I'm James, I'm Kyler, and I'm Corey. Welcome, we are going to tell you about the amazing country of Costa Rica. The color blue on the Costa Rican flag stands for the sky. The red stands for the blood shed by martyrs for their country. The object in the middle is the Costa Rican Coat of Arms. This has been the country's flag since 1998. ||
 * || [[image:costa-rica-escudo.gif caption="costa-rica-escudo.gif"]] || The Costa Rican Coat of Arms has two boats separated by land. One of the boats stands for the Pacific Ocean, and the other, the Carribean Sea. The three mountains on the land stand for the three mountain ranges of Costa Rica. On the sides there are golden beads, which represent coffee beans, the main export of Costa Rica. There are seven stars above the mountains that stand for the first seven countries in central america ||
 * || [[image:www.map-of-costa-rica.com.gif width="319" height="311" caption="www.map-of-costa-rica.com.gif"]] || Costa Rica is located in Central America, above Panama and below Nicaragua. To the east is the Carribean Sea and to the west is the Pacific Ocean. The Capital of Costa Rica is San Jose. Costa Rica has 1290 miles of coastline, and is slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia. ||
 * || [[image:CoffeeCostaRica.jpg width="297" height="393" caption="CoffeeCostaRica.jpg"]] || Costa Rica’s economy is traditional and consists mainly of agricultural products. Although the economy is rapidly growing, there is still great deal of underemployment in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is also proud to be one of the first countries in Middle America to have railroads, this helped a lot with shipping goods and transporting. Many “High tech,” companies are starting to move to Costa Rica and this is helping to expand the economy. This is Costa Rica’s economy. ||
 * || [[image:banana2.jpg width="316" height="420" caption="banana2.jpg"]] || Costa Rica exports goods like textiles, electronics, and medical equipment, but things like petroleum, raw materials, consumer goods, and capital equipment have to be imported. Some of the products exported include Bananas, pineapples, coffee, melons, sugar, and beef. Tourism and industry are two other main parts of the economy. ||
 * || [[image:Cloud__forrest.JPG width="323" height="241"]] || Costa Rica is known for its vast cloud forests. Cloud forests are where there are forests at such high elevation that they are actually in a cloud. The Cloud Forests are different from any other rainforest because of the elevation and the animals that inhabit it, for example the Toucan and the Iguana that we will talk about in the following slides. ||
 * || [[image:toucano.jpg width="330" height="389" caption="toucano.jpg"]] || Costa Rica has a ton of rainforests. There is a lot of wildlife in the rainforests. There are three kinds of rainforests in Costa Rica, the primary rainforest, the virgin forest, and the cloud forest. The primary rainforest is the most difficult to find, there are hardly any of them they have huge trees and gigantic vines hanging everywhere. The virgin forest has tall trees and many thick vines. The cloud forest is cool evergreen forest that is often covered in low level clouds. Because it is found at high elevation, it is away from nearby cloud forests. ||
 * || [[image:lizardcostarica-01-big.jpg width="347" height="232" caption="lizardcostarica-01-big.jpg"]] || Costa Rica has a wide variety of tropical birds, insects, and reptiles such as snakes and iguanas. Also Costa Rica has over 5,000 different kinds of grasshoppers, 160 known amphibians, and 220 known reptiles! The Jesus Christ Lizard is one of the coolest animals in Costa Rica. The reason that it is called the Jesus Christ Lizard is because it can really walk on water, it can even run on water! Another lizard in Costa Rica is the Gecko. The Gecko can climb up anything with the sticky pads on their feet. They love to hunt mosquitos, which is the reason why people like them so much. ||
 * || [[image:central-america-map.gif]] || Costa Rica is fairly close to the equator. But, the average annual temperature for most of the country lies between 71°F and 81°F. The coolest months are from November through January, and the warmest from March through May. San José, the capital, has an annual temperature of 69°F! The dry season runs from January through May and the rainy season runs from May to December. Rainfall patterns are mostly seasonal. Some locations receive over 18 ft of rain per year, while others receive under 4 ft. Most of the total rainfall for any given site, about 70%, occurs on less than 15 days of a whole year, and will often be experienced as days of downpour! Costa Rica may hold the world record for the amount of rainy days at one site. ||
 * || [[image:costaricawaterfalls.jpg width="262" height="213" caption="costaricawaterfalls.jpg"]] || Costa Rica has many amazing waterforms. There are 10 major rivers in Costa Rica. The Colorado River, the Corobici river, the Orosi river, the Pacuare river, the Reventazon river, the Sarapiqui river, the Tamarindo river, the Tarcoles river, the Tempisque river, and the Tenorio river. Costa Rica has great waterfalls too. Three of the best are the La Fortuna waterfall, the La Paz waterfall, and the Rio Celeste waterfall, they are incredible sights. ||
 * || [[image:costa-rica-sunset.jpg width="334" height="250" caption="costa-rica-sunset.jpg"]] || The beaches in Costa Rica are awesome. The coastline stretches over 1100 miles. Costa Rica has rocky shores and also has sandy beaches. There are golden sand beaches, gray sand beaches, black sand beaches, and some pink sand beaches.
 * || ===[[image:costaricacaves.jpg width="299" height="220" caption="costaricacaves.jpg"]]=== || The Caves of Venado are located just south of the city of La Fortuna. These caves are a direct result of water currents passing through the limestone rocks about 7 million years ago. These caves are so deep that absolutely no light gets into them. The height of the tunnels change a lot some of the ceilings are nearly 20 feet in height while others are very tough to slide through. Within the caves there are five thousand year old rock formations. The “papaya” is a vertical rock made up of 2 different rock types. These caves are shut down during the rainy seasons because of the water flowing through it. The Caves of Venado are amazing. ||
 * || [[image:costa_rica_pictures.jpg width="351" height="238" caption="costa_rica_pictures.jpg"]] || Costa Rica is a country with a high percentage of literate people : the country is proud of having 93% literacy in the past 10 years, Costa Rica has the most literate population in all of Central America. Many of the country’s early founders, for example, the first president, Jose Maria Castro, were former teachers who were very concerned about the education in Costa Rica because the literacy rate was slowly decreasing. ||
 * || [[image:inicial-grito1.jpg width="307" height="347" caption="inicial-grito1.jpg"]] || Costa Ricans are very interest in their pre-Columbian art, which includes large statues from the Pacific Northwest; they are also interested in some work that is done in the form of small objects of gold. Samples of all these may be seen in the national museum. This museum is known throughout the country. ||
 * || [[image:23665-traditional-costa-rica-costume_200x150t-1.jpg]] || The Costa Rica costume for women is a long, full, and colorful skirt decorated with ribbons on the hem. The main accessory that accompanies the traditional clothing from Costa Rica for women is a flower over one ear. ||
 * || [[image:ist2_459504_catholic_church_in_costa_rica.jpg width="347" height="231" caption="ist2_459504_catholic_church_in_costa_rica.jpg"]] || About 90 percent of Costa Rican's are Roman Catholics. Roman Catholicism is the most known and official religion of the country, and it is also receives a part of the national income. In other words, some of the money that the country makes is used for the religion. The majority of the rest of the population is Protestant, most of who live in the Limón province. There is in fact a small Jewish congregation that lies in San José. ||
 * || [[image:1035504b.jpg width="347" height="260" caption="1035504b.jpg"]] || People who live in Costa Rica don’t speak the same kind of Spanish that's spoken in Spain. The people in Spain lisp their c's and z's, while Costa Ricans don’t. The Spanish in Costa Rica is just as unique as any other, and it's full of "Tiquismos" or in other words, cool sayings. Costa Ricans are sometimes called “Ticos” because of their accent. ||
 * || [[image:Costa-Rica.gif caption="Costa-Rica.gif"]] || People with an African background live mostly in the provincia of Limon, which contains all of 7 percent of Costa Rica's total population. There is also a good number of Chinese people, many of which are the descendants of imported labourers. The following is the ethnicity percentage of Costa Rica which is shown on the graph: white people (including mestizos and European-Amerindian) is 94%, black’s are 1%, regular Amerindian 1%, Chinese is 1%, and other 3%. ||
 * || [[image:Costa-Rica.gif caption="Costa-Rica.gif"]] || People with an African background live mostly in the provincia of Limon, which contains all of 7 percent of Costa Rica's total population. There is also a good number of Chinese people, many of which are the descendants of imported labourers. The following is the ethnicity percentage of Costa Rica which is shown on the graph: white people (including mestizos and European-Amerindian) is 94%, black’s are 1%, regular Amerindian 1%, Chinese is 1%, and other 3%. ||