Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country,bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east,San Joséto the south,Puntarenas to the southwest and Guanacaste to the west. As of 2011,the province had a population of 885,571. Alajuela is composed of 16 cantons,which are divided into 111 districts. It covers an area of 9,757.53 square kilometers.
Liberia is a district and the largest city in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica,located 215 kilometres (134 mi) northwest of the national capital,San José. Part of the Liberia canton,it is a major center for the country's tourism industry.
Nicoya is a district and head city of the Nicoya canton,in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica,located on the Nicoya Peninsula. It is one of the country's most important tourist zones;it serves as a transport hub to Guanacaste's beaches and national parks.
San Carlos is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. The capital city of the canton is Ciudad Quesada.
Alajuela is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. Its head city is the provincial capital city of Alajuela.
Tourism in Costa Rica has been one of the fastest growing economic sectors of the country and by 1995 became the largest foreign exchange earner. Since 1999,tourism has earned more foreign exchange than bananas,pineapples and coffee exports combined. The tourism boom began in 1987,with the number of visitors up from 329,000 in 1988,through 1.03 million in 1999,over 2 million in 2008,to a historical record of 2.66 million foreign visitors in 2015. In 2012,tourism contributed with 12.5% of the country's GDP and it was responsible for 11.7% of direct and indirect employment. In 2009,tourism attracted 17% of foreign direct investment inflows,and 13% in average between 2000 and 2009. In 2010,the tourism industry was responsible for 21.2% of foreign exchange generated by all exports. According to a 2007 report by ECLAC,tourism contributed to a reduction in poverty of 3% in the country.
Epsy Alejandra Campbell Barr is a Costa Rican politician and economist who served as the Vice-president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. She is the first woman of African descent to be vice president in Costa Rica and in Latin America.
Sierra,locally known as Las Minas,is a district of the Abangares canton,in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. It is well known as a historical mining town of Costa Rica,located in the north west Pacific Region. It goes from an altitude of 210 meters to 1200 meters.
Parrita is a canton and its only district in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
Yolanda Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer. Her most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasión (1948). Her 40 years of life were markedly divided into two phases:the first 20 years,filled with youth,beauty and happiness,contrasted sharply with the following years of tragedy,loneliness and sickness.
Johanna Solano López is a Costa Rican TV Host,model,actress,triathlete and ex beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country at Miss Universe 2011 and placed Top 10.
Ángela Acuña Braun,also known as Ángela Acuña de Chacón,,a Costa Rican lawyer,women's rights pioneer and ambassador,was the first woman to graduate as a lawyer in Central America. Orphaned at the age of 12,she was raised by her maternal aunt and uncle,attending elementary school and beginning high school in Costa Rica. She continued her education in France and England,gaining exposure to the ideas of women's rights. Returning to Costa Rica in 1912,she published articles in support of women's equality. She attended the boys' lyceum or high school where she passed the bachillerato,a prerequisite for entering law school. She embarked on law studies in 1913,leading to a bachelor's degree in 1916. As women were barred from entering the profession,Acuña immediately presented a reform to the civil code allowing this,which was adopted.
Renewable energy in Costa Rica supplied about 98.1% of the electrical energy output for the entire nation and imported 807000 MWh of electricity in 2016. Fossil fuel energy consumption in Costa Rica was 49.48 as of 2014,with demand for oil increasing in recent years. In 2014,99% of its electrical energy was derived from renewable energy sources,about 80% of which from hydroelectric power. For the first 75 days of 2015,100% of its electrical energy was derived from renewable energy sources and in mid 2016 that feat was accomplished for 110 consecutive days despite suboptimal weather conditions.
Arturo Agüero Chaves,was a Costa Rican writer,poet,philologist,lexicographer and educator. Along with Aquileo J. Echeverría,he is one of the greatest exponents of Costa Rican costumbrismo. He is also considered the father of modern linguistics in Costa Rica.
María Mercedes Peñas Domingo is a Spanish–Costa Rican political scientist and specialist in international development in Latin America. Peñas held the position of First Lady of Costa Rica from May 8,2014 to May 8,2018,as the partner of former Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís.
Guadalupe Urbina is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter,poet,and activist. Urbina is a folk musician whose compositions reflect the oral tradition of Guanacaste,her birthplace. She has performed in both Europe and the United States and has won various awards for her work domestically and internationally.
Julieta Dobles Yzaguirre is a Costa Rican poet,writer,and educator. She is a five-time winner of the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award and received the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2013.
Events in the year 2020 in Costa Rica.
Felícitas Chaverri Matamoros was a Costa Rican pharmacist and poet. In 1917,she became the first woman to obtain a university degree in Costa Rica in the field of pharmacy. She also later became the first woman to head the Department of Drugs and Narcotics of the Ministry of Public Health.
