Costa Rica Communication

Costa Rica communicates by the telephone, cellphones, television, and a radio. They also talk directly to the person’s face. Most Costa Ricans speak in spanish. All of these communication tools look exactly like ours here in Canada. Except there might be a little bit more high-tech communication tools here. For example, the cellphone. There is way more different types to choose from here. They all also have way more qualities.

Fertilizer

Industries

Costa Rica has many industries. They are microprocessors, food processing, textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, and plastic products.

Natural Resources

Costa Rica only has one natural resource. The natural resource that they have is hydropower.

Costa Rican Transportation

Costa Rica has 157 airports. Only 32 runways are paved. Their cars are the same as our cars here in Saskatchewan. They have the steering wheel on the left and they look like the cars we have here too.

There are 7 provinces. They are Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limon, Puntarenas, and San Jose. San Jose is the capital of Costa Rica. The population of San Jose was 309,672 in the year 2000. As you can see, San Jose is located in the middle of the country.

1. Alajuela
2. Cartago
3. Guanacaste
4. Heredia
5. Limon
6. Puntarenas
7. San Jose

Above is an close-up of Costa Rica and all of it's towns and cities.

Costa Rica is the small green spot in the middle of the map above. It is also in the box on the left.

Location

Costa Rica is located in Central America. It borders both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. It is between Nicaragua and Panama. Nicaragua is to the North of Costa Rica and Panama is to the South. Costa Rica’s population in July, 2006 was 4,075,261. Costa Rica is a bottleneck. A bottleneck, if you didn't know is a narrow, entrance passageway.