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  2. Wildlife of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Costa Rica is home to around 175 amphibians, 85% of which are frogs. Frogs in Costa Rica have interesting ways of finding fishless water to raise their young in. Fish, of course, will eat tadpoles and eggs. Poison dart frogs put their eggs in water pools in bromeliads. Other methods include searching ponds before laying eggs, and laying eggs in ...

  3. Abortion in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    In Costa Rica, there is no officially registered organisation offering misoprostol openly, and any such provision would be unlawful without a prescription. Abortion remains prohibited by the Penal Code (Articles 118 and 119), with the exception of therapeutic abortion under Article 121. [19]

  4. Immigration to Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    According to the census of 2012, 4,285 Mexicans were living in Costa Rica from Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Baja California and Mexico City. They are typically professionals, doctors, secretaries, among other roles. Costa Rica is the ninth most popular destination for Mexican immigrants in the world. [25]

  5. San Ramón, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    The plaza is located 47 km WNW of Costa Rica's parliament building in the center of the capital city of San José and 31 km from Juan Santamaría International Airport in Alajuela. Its location in the central valley (Meseta Central) is c.33 km east of the Pacific coast near Puntarenas , and c.140 km west of the Caribbean at a point north of ...

  6. Grecia, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Grecia is a district of the Grecia canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] Grecia has an area of 7.51 km 2 (2.90 sq mi) [3] and an elevation of 999 m (3,278 ft). [1]

  7. Constitution of Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    The Provincial Constituent Congress of Costa Rica was convened twice in the then Province of Costa Rica immediately after the independence of Spain. First with the country as a province, at least nominally, part of the First Mexican Empire , and the second as a province of the newly created Federal Republic of Central America .

  8. Santa Ana, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the art gallery of the Escueal Municipal de Artes Integradas, Santa Ana, Costa Rica The Santa Ana district's public education is served by the Andres Bello primary (elementary) school. The secondary education cycle (middle & high school) is offered by the Liceo de Santa Ana located in the neighboring district of Uruca.

  9. San Vito, Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    San Vito was founded in 1952, since when it has become an important center in Costa Rica's Brunca region. San Vito district was created on 10 December 1965 by Ley 3598. [2] San Vito de Java was the result of a process of foreign agricultural colonization organized by the state of Costa Rica.