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101 Facts about Costa Rica: History - Culture - Nature - Curiosities
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Series: 101 Facts about Countries, Book 14
Caribbean HistoryGeneral ReferenceCentral America
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ISBN13: 9798174090163
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A country everyone thinks they know the same things about.No army. Five percent of the world's species on three hundredths of a percent of its land. Electricity almost entirely from water, wind, and volcanoes. A bird that announces the rainy season, and a river whose turquoise disappears in a glass. 101 facts. Each on its own page.
Open it anywhere - no entry depends on another. Sorted into six chapters:
Costa Rica is praised unanimously and checked rarely. That is exactly what makes it worth reading about: the forest that came back had almost vanished first. The national phrase comes from a Mexican film. And the famous stone spheres are not round. Checked, not copied.
Every figure, date, and superlative was checked against an accessible source before it was written. Where sources contradict each other, the range appears instead of the prettier number. Where scholarship is in dispute, the dispute appears. One example: the headline about the happiest country on Earth almost always cites an index that measures no contentment at all, but well-being divided by ecological footprint. With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.
- Geography & Nature - volcanoes, cloud forest, two oceans
- History & Archaeology - stone spheres, banana republic, a single civil war
- People, Language & Cities - ticos, creole on the Caribbean, eight Indigenous nations
- Peace, Democracy & Pura Vida - the day the army ended
- Kitchen, Coffee & Cacao - rice, beans, and three world-market commodities
- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - pineapple, earth heat, a border dispute over a map
Costa Rica is praised unanimously and checked rarely. That is exactly what makes it worth reading about: the forest that came back had almost vanished first. The national phrase comes from a Mexican film. And the famous stone spheres are not round. Checked, not copied.
Every figure, date, and superlative was checked against an accessible source before it was written. Where sources contradict each other, the range appears instead of the prettier number. Where scholarship is in dispute, the dispute appears. One example: the headline about the happiest country on Earth almost always cites an index that measures no contentment at all, but well-being divided by ecological footprint. With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.
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