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What is Costa Rica famous for?
Costa Rica is an important tourist destination for visitors from all over the world, and Costa Rica is famous for many important landmarks that express its picturesque nature and culture, including the following:
- Santa Elena and Monteverde: They are two small cities located at high altitude, where they can enjoy wandering in the clouds in an exciting experience of ecotourism.
- Arenal volcano: It is one of the currently inactive volcanoes, as its last regular eruption stopped in 2010, the Arenal Volcano region is characterized by stunning landscapes and the presence of hot springs.
- Cerro Sherpeau: The highest summit in Costa Rica overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, it is one of the most famous landmarks for climbing and enjoying the natural scenery.
Facts about Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s marine water bodies are ten times the size of its land, Costa Rica’s coastline is 801 miles, and Costa Rica’s population is less than five million, ninety-four percent of them are of European origin. Costa Rica represents one of the largest hosts of biological diversity in the world, with the proportion of organisms having 5% of the total living creatures in the world, including fifty-two species of hummingbirds, 750,000 species of insects, and ten percent of all butterflies in the world, A quarter of the country’s area has been designated as nature reserves, bringing the number of reserves to more than a hundred.
History of Costa Rica
The first to discover Costa Rica from the Europeans was Christopher Columbus, on his fourth and final trip to explore the new world, on the eighteenth of September of the year one thousand five hundred and two, and the name Costa Rica means the rich coastline, and it was named so because the local people used to wear golden jewelry in their noses and ears . Archaeologists note that Costa Rica knew human civilization thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, where archaeological evidence indicates the existence of human populations about ten thousand years ago.
