The load of Tuna fish confiscated by the Costa Rica Government aboard the ship Tiuna couldn’t be sold on auction yesterday, as no offers were made. The load of 24 tons of Tunafish estimated in the market price of 22 hundred dollars each, failed to get any offers on it’s first attempt, as no one [...]
Scientists have discovered what seems to be an unseen volcano in costarrican territory. It’s crater, which is actually a 200m diameter lagoon, had been sighted before, but no one suspected it could be a volcano crater at the top of a hill situated in a place called “El Porvenir”, a region located between Alfaro Ruiz and [...]
Today El Volcan Turrialba surprised us with some unusally large fumaroles (up to 800 m high) Though no inordinate seizmicity has been reported, these columns of sulphurous gases activity is the most notorious sighted so far since the volcano entered an active phase two years ago. It could be seen from anywhere within the [...]
Yesterday morning the costarrican coastguard seized a panamenian Tuna ship while fishing in Coco’s Island jurisdictional waters. The ship was reported being sighted by Marviva, an ecological organization whose boat was in the area.
The boat in question had captured about thirteen tons of tuna, and other species while fishing ilegally in Costarrican waters. This is [...]
I’ve received some mail lately asking me about beachfront property conflicts in Costa Rica, and being this a note-worthy issue, I beleive it’s always worthy of further discussion.
People, both alien and residents in this country are getting privy of how complicated it is to build realestate here. And I stress this point because it’s [...]
Yesterday, October 7th, 2007 was probably the most historic day in Costa Rica since the foundation of the 2nd Republic back in 1949. Though I´m not old enough to remember those days after the revolution we know The Government instituted The Supreme Elections [...]
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Virgen de los Angeles-Patrona de Costa Rica, originally uploaded by Allendale.
Our Lady of the Angels
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Virgen de los Angeles-Patrona de Costa Rica, originally uploaded by Allendale.
The Costa Rica Page/As of Today/Religion
There are two important religious celebrations during the year for Catholic costarricans: Holy Week and August 2nd., Day of La Virgen de Los Angeles, the patron saint of Costa Rica. The day was considered big enough to be placed with Mother´s Day next, on August 15.
During the days before August 2nd., an estimated more than [...]
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